Word: unload
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buses which will travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...
Then the bubble burst. Shrewd Cargill wriggled out of its short position by buying Canadian rye, shipping it into the U.S. General Foods began to unload some of its rye. The corn crop turned out to be a whopper, and distillers decided that they might get some of this for whiskey. Furthermore, use of rye in industrial alcohol is no longer compulsory. During November, rye prices slipped...
...speculators were afraid to unload for fear of driving the price down further. As a result, Chicago elevators are still jammed with 9,000,000 bu. of rye and there is no place to store the incoming corn and wheat crops. To try to make room, the Government rationed elevator space. At week's end, speculators holding December rye contracts were scurrying around looking for buyers. The deadline for taking delivery of grain is the last of December, but buyers are scarce. And speculators are painfully aware that when buyers are scarce-and when there is plenty of grain...
Only intermittently did the weather hold back the Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
...Passos was in Washington when the antistrike bill was passed over the President's veto (TIME, July 5, 1943). He talked with cynical New Dealers, got in an argument with a Communist taxi driver. He found out what "unloading the detail" means. He asked what happened when an industry was taken over by the Government. " 'That's easy .. . first we call a meeting of department heads.' " 'Aren't they all busy? . . .' " 'Nobody's ever so busy he can't take on something more, if he knows how to unload...