Word: unload
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish-Communist plot to overthrow the U. S. Government next August by the ingenious means of bringing in 150,000 Communists, mostly ex-Loyalist Spaniards. The importees would seize U. S. arsenals, take over public utilities and transportation facilities. Meanwhile, rich Jewish conspirators would unload their securities, creating financial chaos...
Much distressed, the Air Corps quietly went to work on Capitol Hill to get Negro training killed or unload it on the Civil Aeronautics Authority before the rearmament bill is finally enacted...
...stop indiscriminate selling of hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...
This first case of two holding companies transferring an operating subsidiary has a threefold significance: 1) Cities Service is withdrawing slowly but thoroughly from the public-utility field-last week was reported about to unload its Ohio properties, its biggest public-utility investment in which it has an equity of some $27,000,000; 2) Commonwealth & Southern is rebuilding its system in the North precisely according to SEC demands; 3) two of the country's largest holding companies have decided there is no longer any use fighting the New Deal's utility reform...
When members of Harry Bridges' C.I.O. Warehousemen's Union refused to unload a freight car which had been packed with school supplies at a struck F. W. Woolworth Co. warehouse last fortnight their employers fired them, shut down. The hot Woolworth car soon visited, and shut, 35 more union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area...