Word: unload
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first things I did was to teach him to play tennis in English." That made the language seem of some use. Then she got him interested in games involving a map of the world and miniature ships. "The ships follow routes: they stop at a port and unload a cargo of rice and take on a cargo of coffee. They run into fog and have to turn back. There is a lot of vocabulary practice in the natural talk of playing the game. ... I teach everything in English. Then, when [Prince Akihito] learns something, he thinks in English without translation...
...first began to notice him when he became a big buyer of Canadian bonds. In the bull market of the '20s, he loaded up heavily with Woolworth and Montgomery Ward when they were low-priced, made millions when they spiraled and were split. One of the few to unload before the 1929 crash, he doubled his fortune by going short...
Over in Leavitt and Peirce, where Vag went to have his mid-day coffee, an enthusiastic china and glass salesman was trying to unload his products on the lunch counter manager. "Yes, sir, we're now in a position to supply you with a complete line of these glasses. Take this little number. Invaluable for serving fruit jnices. Specially processed to stand up under rough treatment." He dropped it on the counter with what he hoped was a convincing lack of concern for its safety. It didn't break...
...Work. For seven days A.F.L. teamsters had refused to drive truckloads of parts through the foremen's lines. So the company brought them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep...
...finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union, whose men man the boats. And until the price for haddock and other fish was met, the unionized "lumpers" who unload the boats would not work...