Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buildings and Grounds officials are enthusiastic about their brand new dump truck, acquired over the summer. This fine machine, making only four trips to the dump a day, enables B & G to abandon the old incinerator system. Instead of burning rubbish in their respective basements, House and Yard superintendents leave the trash on the street until B & G's new toy comes around and picks it up. Buildings and Grounds says this all will save large sums of money...
...Amalgamated; Governor Films). "Good heavens, no!" the male patient sputters shyly to the two young nurses who propose to remove his drawers. "I'll do it myself if you don't mind.'' They do mind, and with Amazonian zest they pants the poor chap and dump him in the sack. "There now," one of them remarks, "what a fuss-about such a little thing...
...slash of 700,000 tons in the amount of sugar that the U.S. would buy from Cuba during the rest of 1960, world sugar prices dropped 3 to 8 points, i.e., hundredths of a cent a pound, in expectation of the cut -and in fear that Cuba would dump its surplus sugar on the world market. Instead, Cuba raised its minimum export price from $3 to $3.25 a hundred pounds in an effort to recover part of its losses on sugar sales. Thereupon, in heavy trading world sugar futures shot up again, only to level off at week...
Actually, Cuba could not dump its sugar and remain a member of the powerful International Sugar Council, which set Cuba's 1960 sugar export quota at 2,700,000 tons, excluding its shipments to the U.S. The world already has 13.7 million tons of surplus sugar, will add another 600,000 tons this year. The question is not whether the U.S. will suffer any sugar shortage-it will not-but rather it is who will inherit the market that Cuba loses...
...world's biggest sugar producer, is a net exporter of sugar; at best, the Cubans could expect to market one-sixth of their next year's crop to the Soviets. They may find, as Nasser did when he bartered cotton to Russia, that the Communists will dump it elsewhere, depriving them of other markets...