Word: unload
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...cook," cried little Red Father Lenin in the first flush of revolution, "can rule the state." But instead the state soon ruled the women, liberating them from the "old household slavery" and giving them equal rights with men only so that they could also carry hods, puddle steel and unload barges. "The hardest-worked sex in the country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister...
...been going up. To keep the small businessman abreast of good management techniques. SBA has also put out 53 booklets on topics ranging from "How to Build Your Sales Volume" to "Care of Hydraulic Systems."* Staff specialists help with individual problems, e.g., a paraplegic veteran looking for markets to unload his overproduction of white mice, a soda-fountain supplier looking for new confections to round out his line...
...stock traders rushed to unload, Chrysler broke 5¾ points to 59⅛, led the Dow-Jones industrial average down more than eight points (to 339.64) before the market steadied, closed at 343.06. In one hectic day, New York Stock Exchange volume soared to 3,347,040 shares, second highest of the year...
...week Congress ignored President Eisenhower's search for a way to cure crop surpluses. Instead, without a record vote, House members whooped through a bill permitting sale abroad of $1 billion in farm surpluses, plus famine relief gifts of $300 million more. So hot was the fervor to unload that Congressmen struck from the bill a provision for "reasonable precautions" against any smashing of normal trade patterns by U.S. dumping abroad...
...companies have struck uranium, or even worked their claims. Nevertheless, early investors have not lost money. The trick has been to get in on the ground floor of a new issue and then unload at double or triple the price to latecomers. The big lure is that there is uranium in the Colorado Plateau, and in some places, lots of it. All the penny plungers dream of the day when their company makes the big strike-and their penny stocks suddenly are worth dollars...