Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...
...President's travel allowance, 2) that McGrath had roused the President's ire by intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
...defeat of Cornell last week by Navy also throws certain previous conceptions far out the window. Washington and Cornell had seemed the only boats that might really stand a chance to dump the Crimson in the trials; now Navy, which finished a comfortable distance in arrears at the Regatta on May 8, looks like a tough opponent...
...coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. In time he made friends with them and, while awaiting the arrival of fresh loads of garbage, told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns. After a while he moved into a packing case at the dump and began to build his church. When TIME told his story, he figured that $100 would just about complete...
...school for the children of the city dump...