Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the U.A.W.'s threat to strike, if necessary, to get some form of guaranteed annual wage in current negotiations, Ford said: "Today, both management and workers know that a major strike could dump the applecart of our present and prospective high prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation...
...straight runway, the professor reasons, is fine if it is long enough. But often, even on a very long runway, a faltering engine or iced-up wings can dump an airplane in crack-up territory beyond the airport fence. A circular runway, on the other hand, is infinitely long because an airplane, tethered to its center, can fly around it indefinitely. The pilot need not fear "running out of runway." Even if his engine dies after the takeoff, his airplane can circle safely to the ground again...
...Authority built a remotely controlled apparatus to load its most dangerous wastes into massive concrete cylinders lined with steel. Before fishermen and ocean lovers could organize in opposition, the Authority loaded 1,500 tons of the sealed drums on an ammunition ship and sank them in the atomic dump off Land's End. There they will be safe from the deepest trawling nets, and long before their skins have corroded away, the radioactive stuff inside them will have become harmless...
...last night's third League A contest, Lowell rallied in the last minutes to dump Winthrop, 50-45, and bring its record to three wins, three losses. The B League Bellboys lost to the Puritans...
Holiday Spirit. In Rutland, Vt., Laborer Robert Woodward. 37, well fortified with alcohol, decided to pay a holiday visit to his 71-year-old, bedridden mother at East Poultney, lost control of his dump truck on a curve as he was approaching his destination, caromed off a tree and into his mother's cottage, knocked the cottage off its foundation and his mother out of bed and into the arms of son Ronald, with whom she was conversing, was hauled into court and pleaded guilty to charges of driving while drunk and without a license...