Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King motored from Bucharest to the meeting, with his mother. After two hours he turned his car off the road at a gasoline dump. A German motorized column came into sight. The royal party jumped into their car and hurried off just as the Germans opened fire. Bullets flew back & forth for a few minutes before the King raced out of the danger zone...
...Vancouver Daily Province reported that "fires burn day and night" on the dump piles at Dawson Creek, B.C. A farmer said that he had seen more than 100 good stoves thrown on one dump. A woman in Whitehorse wrote to her father: "I saw ... a barracks between two and three city blocks long, packed with winter clothes . . . blankets . . . chairs. ... So help me God, they stacked them up, poured gasoline over them, set them on fire...
...performing their normal duties. Credited with being the workingest men on Saipan, they performed prodigious feats of labor both while under fire and after beachheads were well secured. Some unloaded boats for three days, with little or no sleep, working in water up to waist deep. Some in floating dump details were the first men to pile off their ship toward the beach...
...considerable extent, been circumvented. A good part of the Fifth, like 20% of the previous War Loan, which was similarly restricted, is being financed by bank credit. This is easily done to get the cash with which to buy the current loan, insurance companies, savings banks and other investors "dump" Government securities by selling them to commercial banks. With the proceeds they buy bonds of the new issue. Naturally, this has exactly the same inflationary effect as if the banks bought war bonds directly...
...Service Command, said last week: "To return much of it would be prohibitive, due to transportation and handling costs and because many items quickly become obsolete." Unless stuff can be disposed of on the spot. General Miller advised, "it will be more economical and cost taxpayers less to dump it in the ocean...