Word: unload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Minister. · Died. Gerald Martin Loeb, 74, wise stockbroker and bestselling author (The Battle for Investment Survival); of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Loeb joined the E.F. Hutton brokerage house in 1922, retiring as vice chairman in 1965. He predicted the 1929 crash in time to unload all his holdings and those of his customers and contended throughout his career that there is no place where knowledge will pay an individual as rich a reward as Wall Street...
...civic leader in Greenville, it was pretty much all downhill. As local chairman of the relief committee during the 1927 Mississippi River flood, he came under sharp attack from Northern black newspapers because, among other things, he forced Greenville's blacks to live on the levee and unload relief boats instead of letting them go back to their homes. Later, Percy got more criticism from Northern liberals for having the work on his plantation done by black sharecroppers...
...sudden drop in demand for a product could send its price plummeting. Already silver and sugar prices have backed down from highs reached earlier this year. And land, metals, paintings and coins have one huge disadvantage as investments: once they pass their price peaks, they are much harder to unload quickly than stocks or bonds...
...brother of UFW president Cesar Chavez said dockworkers in England, Norway, Sweden and Denmark recently vowed not to unload non-UFW table grapes, severely weakening what he characterized as a growing effort to evade the boycott by exporting grapes to Europe...
...manufacturers and other industrialists. Such a move would serve notice to Ian Smith and his white regime that one less government wishes to condone Rhodesia's racial practices. The demonstration last week was an effort to show solidarity with the 14 million Zimbawbe people. Insofar as the longshoremen did unload the Rhodesian asbestos, the action was unsuccessful. But as one organizer pointed out, the protest had a broader purpose: to show support for a people who live in a state of virtual servitude. Eddison told the demonstrators: "It is very good to see some people who don't want racism...