Word: unload
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rounded up 100 tugs and towed the caissons and ships to Omaha Beach so smoothly that supply ships were unloading within the man-made harbor on D-day plus 12. At the same time, as a precaution, Moran had towed barges loaded with supplies from New York to France. Thus when a storm battered the harbors, the barges were able to unload directly on the beaches...
...watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
...month ago, Jordan, so the tale went, decided his holdings in cotton futures were too big. He began to liquidate cautiously. Apparently few got wind of it until last week. When the news got out, smaller speculators began to unload, touched off the break. As prices crashed, in spot cotton as well as in futures, Jordan himself was caught in the avalanche and was forced to unload fast. The exchanges, in turn, were forced to close to give dog-tired clerks a chance to catch...
...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...
Stockmen, fearful that OPA ceilings might come back, poured cattle and pigs into Midwest packing plants. At one time trucks were backed up four miles at Omaha waiting to unload; drivers had to turn hoses on their stock to keep it from dying in the hot sun. As wholesale meat stocks rose to 80% of the wartime average, packers shied away from high prices. Result: 4,000 high-priced hogs remained unsold one day at Chicago's Union Stockyards and wholesale meat prices started down, though they were still well above OPA ceilings. Retail prices, which had generally been...