Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salesladies asked if I wouldn't like to see something new in dump trucks. "This one over here is a product of the Bing Crosby Research Foundation," she said as she pulled a heavy red truck out of the tinkering hands of a small boy, mumbling to him as she did so a perfunctory "Can I help you?" The truck operated by electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house...
...skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members of the other team to keep them from catching the jammer; and when the jammer comes around, his buddies get set to block for him. The enemy, of course, does its all to dump the guy, since this is the only way it can prevent being scored on unless time runs out on the jammer...
Mostly his enemies in the party remembered Jimmy's attempt to dump Harry Truman in favor of Eisenhower at Philadelphia last year. "We can't very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name Roosevelt means something. The people here will fill a ballpark to see a Roosevelt-or a Clark Gable or a Lana Turner, of a Frankenstein. But they won't vote for them." Most of the Truman professionals preferred California's E. George Luckey, the swashbuckling Imperial Valley cattleman...
...most of whose commissioners are not electronic experts, will hold many more hearings, stage more demonstrations. The commission may dump the problem of color TV into the lap of some such scientific body as the National Bureau of Standards. While the decision waits, laymen can draw a few conclusions for themselves...
...situation seemed to be made to order for Beck. Like most employers, Boeing was not at all averse to his guarantees of iron union discipline and labor peace. Beck licked his chops and prepared to dump Boeing's 15,000 employees into the kettleful of fruit canners, clerks and dry cleaners whose dues were already pouring into the teamsters' treasury...