Word: unload
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five & Ten law, but later drove the truck on to the legation, helped unload...
...businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials the goods go through the hands of at least one sales representative. The general field of salesmanship has shown many changes in the last forty or fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed...
...been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery at one end and a river at the other. After an unsuccessful attempt to unload his Piggly Wiggly stock, an attempt featured by a full page newspaper advertisement entitled "Fighting for My Life," Mr. Saunders turned over a fortune estimated at nine million dollars to the bankers who had financed his disastrous corner, and got out of Piggly Wiggly...
...members of the Kansas City Little Symphony and the soloist, Mrs. George R. Cowden, motored from Hays yesterday almost at the risk of their lives, because of slippery roads. The orchestra arrived at two o'clock, with one hour to unload piano, harp, trunks and instrument books from the trunks, and for luncheon. At three o'clock an audience of twelve hundred was in the gymnasium, one thousand of whom were school children. Tonight an audience of eight hundred brought the number to two thousand who heard the orchestra in spite of rain and muddy roads. Busses with school children...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...