Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to locate the exact place of the tremendous fire that is raging and turning the sky absolutely crimson....In the vicinity of Nichols Field there is a terrific fire that looks very much as though a gasoline dump or something like that is burning over there....Ladies and gentlemen, there is one thing we definitely found out at the present time: the Japanese came over with the idea of hitting a definite target and they have hit that target...
...captive mines, they struck at mines already under contract-in the Allegheny County region around Pittsburgh, along the Monongahela River Valley, in the mountains of West Virginia. Only a few tried to keep on working. At Edenborn, Pa., a group of them posted themselves around the slate dump, fired on pickets with revolvers and shotguns, wounded more than a dozen...
...heads of A.D.P. workmen. To enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly refused. Wohn finally got his trucks by sending an intermediary to lease them for an anonymous project...
Today copper is 12? a lb., not 16?. Yet the Morenci ores, though low-grade, will still yield a profit. When production starts, nine 125-ton electric locomotives will haul 75,000 tons of rock from the pit each day, dump 50,000 tons of waste into the canyons, spill the rest into ore bins. Each ton of ore will yield 21 lb. of copper-a daily smelter production of around 260 tons...
...Government), is being played all over again: a Washington, D.C. contractor rented a $4,200 tractor for $3,907.42 and a truck valued at $425 for $414.34; a Chicago contractor paid $1,023 rent on a $1,400 truck; a New Jersey contractor rented a 1927 dump truck valued...