Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next six days his house got the kind of spring cleaning that many a homeowner wishes he could afford. Inside & out, everything (including the unhappy patrolman) was swabbed down with soap & water. Later, all the cleaning gear was carefully collected, carted off and tossed on to a restricted disposal dump...
...every corner. Taking no chances, the decontamination crew followed a simple rule: if it can't be checked, chuck it out. The whole furnace was ripped out and destroyed. Any articles that could easily be replaced were also discarded. Frying pans, slip covers, clothes, all went to the dump, to be replaced at Government expense...
...mass culture: "The effort of social reformers to supply intellectual as well as material luxuries to the poor fails for want of roots in primary human nature ... To dump into the poor man's mind the products of a decadent aristocratic culture will perhaps accelerate their decomposition, but it will not sow the seed of anything better...
Everybody, including the grafting, remorseful basketball players, agreed on one point: it is wrong to dump games. The soul-searching went on from there...
...middle of Boston Harbor is an island piled high with garbage and rubbish. Spectacle Island has long been the dump for central Boston, at great cost to everyone. In 1951 the Coleman Disposal Company will charge $530,000 to truck rubbish to two Atlantic Avenue piers, load it onto scows, and tow it out to the island. Because no new company wants to invest the large sums necessary for scows and other equipment on the mere chance of getting a contract, the Coleman Company has a virtual monopoly. It has held its job for the last 30 years...