Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sierra . . . we're approximately fifteen miles from you . . . we're turning on our landing lights. Over." "Roger," said Plata, "we have you in sight now, 2124. We have the nose light on. We're flashing it on and off. Do you see us?" Replied Hancox: "Affirmative." Dumping Gas. Mike Sierra's Pilot Plata now had a severe weight problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure...
Last autumn, charged CEA, Kosuga and Siegel bought 928 carloads of onions, which were shipped to Chicago and stored. This constituted 98% of the onion stocks available in Chicago for onion futures delivery. They then asked 13 of the growers to buy onions, threatening to dump their onion holdings on the market and force down prices if the growers refused. The growers accordingly bought 285 carloads for which they paid $168,000. In return, Kosuga and Siegel promised to hold their onion stocks off the market until March 1956, thus supporting the long side of the market...
...distributing films on TV itself. The studio also announced that it is going to buy or acquire an interest in TV stations (limited by Federal Communications Commission to five for any one owner), said that it will expand its activities to special productions for TV and that it will dump on the TV market for the first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts, all produced before 1949. Among the features-some of the nation's most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys...
Bellanca stockholders began to sell. As the stock dropped, four brokerage houses, which held thousands of shares of Bellanca stock in Albert's margin accounts, were forced to dump it on the market as Albert's margin fell below the 70% required by the Federal Reserve Board. In all, 350,000 of Albert's shares were sold in a few days...
...pistol. Then the pair took off for Houston, stopping occasionally on the way to fortify themselves with beer. "I got to thinking," Cook later recalled, "if I could go over to Houston and clean up the case and bring the man and the money back to San Antonio and dump it all in the lap of the police chief, I would be famous." Finally, in a beer-blurred haze of headlines and bylines, Cook rapped on the door at the Houston address...