Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sim T. Webb, 83, fireman for Engineer Casey Jones on his fabled (Around the curve and down the dump/ Two locomotives was a bound to jump) last run on the Illinois Central (April 30, 1900), who leaped clear on Casey's orders just before they rammed a stalled freight near Vaughn, Miss.; in Memphis...
...Service case had been around Washington a long time before Acheson got to it. One spring day in 1945, Service, one of the band of Foreign Service "China hands" who urged the U.S. during World War II to dump the Chinese Nationalists and plump for Communist Mao Tse-tung, was discovered by the FBI in the hotel room of Philip Jaffe. editor of the pro-Chinese Communist magazine Amerasia. The FBI had earlier raided Amerasia's offices, found there about 40 of Service's State Department documents, which he had stamped "Secret" or "Confidential." Service was arrested along...
Then the bed of the trailer reared slowly upward like the body of a dump truck, carrying the X-13 to a vertical position. It was now hanging by an undernose hook from a short length of cable strung between two movable arms at the top of the vertical trailer bed. Its engine roared louder, and slowly the Vertijet rose, standing on an invisible column of hot racing gases. Its hook now free from the cable, it rose higher. Then it curved gracefully into normal, horizontal flying position and roared away out of sight...
Armco had agreed to dump the iron into its electric furnaces to see if it worked as well as blast-furnace iron in the making of steel. On hand for the important test this week, the biggest to date, were observers from Jones & Laughlin, Granite City Steel and Colorado Fuel and Iron...
...federation's detailed listing of charges indicated that as far as the parent AFL-CIO is concerned the Teamsters will have to dump Beck, Brewster, Brennan and perhaps a number of other officers under fire...