Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country with a whole heart? I don't mean any of us give a damn about Japan. We hope they get licked. But . . . nobody ever let us become a real part of this country. . . . If they want to take away all we've got and dump us out in the desert, we've got no choice. But we don't like it. . . . And we're expected to buy bonds...
Detroit has other enormous rooms, and out of them armies will roll and fleets will fly. Endlessly the lines will send tanks, jeeps, machine guns, cannon, air torpedoes, armored cars. Ford's River Rouge plant, where Ford steamships dump coal and iron ore and limestone to be magicked into steel and glass and machinery, has turned its two square miles of self-contained industrial empire to the tools...
...basketball team at U.C.L.A., young Arthur now works in a vegetable market. Said he: "Most of us Nisei are completely loyal. ... I guess there are some spies among us. I don't know. But the answer seems to be to take the whole bunch of us and dump us in one spot. The spies can't do any damage, and we won't be suspected...
...Hague, 30 Dutchmen were ordered shot unless the persons responsible for blowing up a munitions dump were caught in five days...
...Denver, a driver of a dump truck crawled into his bin to keep warm. A steam-shovel operator buried him under a load of dirt. The bin was tipped to release him, and the dirt buried him again on the ground. Somebody then drove the truck over his legs, but the dirt protected him and he returned to work...