Word: unload
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...Government bonds. Bondholders liked the guaranteed market. But as commercial interest rates edged upwards (Reynolds Tobacco Co. had to promise 4½% last week on a $26 million issue of preferred stock, compared to 3.6% on an issue in mid-1945), big bondholders, notably insurance companies, began to unload on FRB. They could put their money in better paying private issues or out to loan. Had the unloading reached such a point that FRB should stop supporting the market...
...Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks. Around each man's waist was slung the parang with which his forefathers had chopped off enemy heads before the British stamped the custom out. Knots of hair hung from many hilts, but the main decoration consisted of tassels of pheasant feathers dangling from their sheaths. Charms made of wild boar or crocodile teeth hung from their waists. Some displayed intricate patterns tattooed on throat and chest; a few sported Hollywood-style sunglasses. The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang. "It's more than...
Next stop was the Chinese port of Chinwangtao, where the Marine Flier paused to unload 2,500 tons of girdles ("the engine-room bell was clanging . . . he may have said girders"). "Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers . . . noodles, poodles . . . leeches, breeches, peaches . . . roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats." Perelman tossed the children "a few worn gold pieces which were of no further use to me," and then he and Hirschfeld took a brief ride in rickshas...
...Bitterest Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...