Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four thick seams of anthracite coal. Over the years, mining operations honeycombed the earth beneath the city with tunnels. Where the seams came close enough to the hilly surface, great machines stripped away the worthless overburden, exposing the coal. The city government found abandoned stripping craters handy places to dump garbage and rubbish. The Hudson Coal Co. urged the city fathers to stop this sloppy practice, but its warning was ignored. In 1946 the rubbish started burning, and before it could be extinguished, the fire ignited the coal. Flames raced through hundreds of yards of abandoned gas-filled tunnels...
Alternative to Subsidy. Such efforts are still small. But enough progress is being made to convince many farmers that a real move away from growing crops to dump on the Government and toward producing what people want to buy could lead to a major expansion of U.S. farm markets abroad...
When the 1929 crash came, the closed-end shareholders were forced to dump their shares in a sinking market at prices that had no relation to their real value. Their companies went down to disaster-while the mutual funds rode out the storm. The debacle of the closed-end trusts was helped by all sorts of financial jiggery-pokery; in some companies, officers unloaded their own holdings of shaky stocks on the trusts...
After World War II, Blacksmith Henrique Pedro de Sanson expanded his Rio shop to make boiler tanks. In 1950 he went into oil-storage tanks, in 1956 into specialized truck bodies-dump trucks, asphalt spreaders, tank trailers. "Business has increased 300% to 400% every year since I started," says Millionaire Sanson. Along with 39,892 other businesses (quadrupled since 1946), San-son's enterprise is riding a boom that has kited Brazil's gross national product up 63% in the past ten years, has boosted the per capita G.N.P. 29%-allowing for a population explosion from...
Trade-Ins. The key to Ayer's success is the way he sells. He does not merely dump airplanes for a price, but first makes sure that they can be used and comfortably paid for. For small lines, which do not always know what is best for them, he sends in men to analyze routes, cargo business and profits. Since his credit is better than that of many small lines, and "he can pay off his big purchases as he receives payments for his sales, he can give airlines credit terms that many would not get themselves. Equally important...