Word: unload
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commerce Department saw nothing to worry about, since the ratio of sales to inventories was the same as last year, many a businessman was not so sure. If sales fall off much, then some inventories might well prove too high, and businessmen short of cash might have to unload in a hurry. In some areas, sales would certainly fall. Farm income was on the way down, and sales of farm equipment were slipping. Nevertheless, most businessmen were optimistic about the rest of the year. Of 1,281 businessmen surveyed by Dun & Bradstreet, six put of ten expected that this year...
...Aranha had promised to pay even if he had to dip into Brazil's gold reserves. When he said he would not devalue the currency now, the cruzeiro free-rate firmed up from 52 to 45 to the dollar. In a move to trim ship, he decided to unload Brazil's overpriced cotton stocks on the world market, though it might mean taking a $27 million loss on the treasury books. It was a tough line, but it won support at home and abroad. President Getulio Vargas called in his old-time lieutenant for advice on all sorts...
...only strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen. Through Lap Sap Mei now travels about one-third of all shipping to China. Most of the ships that call there are Communist-owned, but occasional vessels flying Western flags, including the Union Jack...
...Chicago court last week as a witness in the Government's antitrust suit against the Du Fonts, General Motors and U.S. Rubber. The Government, which is trying to 1) force Du Pont to sell its G.M. stock (23%), 2) require members of the Du Pont family to unload their 17% interest in U.S. Rubber, and 3) get G.M. to drop its 50% interest in the Ethyl Corp., wanted to know what G.M.'s former president knew of G.M.-U.S. Rubber dealings...
...Descent. At this point the crew may shake hands all round, but they still have excitement ahead. They unload the 36 tons of cargo (sections of the satellite station) and park it in space. There's no danger of its falling: it has the same speed as the rocket, and will stay in the orbit indefinitely...