Word: unload
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...cooperative plan," used by landlords to unload hundreds of apartments on tenants at fat profits, last week turned up in the hotel business. Arnold Kirkeby, who has an eleven-hotel chain, announced a plan to turn Manhattan's elegant, 492-room Hampshire House into a coop, and thereby make a pretty penny. Kirkeby's company bought Hampshire House two years ago for $3,550,000 and later borrowed $3,350,000 on it. So far it has earned him less than $700,000 before taxes, which makes Kirkeby think "we are not making much headway...
...spreads from Canada to Mexico, from the Rockies to the Pacific. The unions encompassed by his Western Conference of Teamsters move virtually "everything on wheels" in the eleven western states. His men send enormous diesel rigs snarling across the Mojave Desert, drive hearses in Oakland, deliver laundry in Seattle, unload mining machinery in Butte...
...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...Government bonds. Bondholders liked the guaranteed market. But as commercial interest rates edged upwards (Reynolds Tobacco Co. had to promise 4½% last week on a $26 million issue of preferred stock, compared to 3.6% on an issue in mid-1945), big bondholders, notably insurance companies, began to unload on FRB. They could put their money in better paying private issues or out to loan. Had the unloading reached such a point that FRB should stop supporting the market...
...Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks. Around each man's waist was slung the parang with which his forefathers had chopped off enemy heads before the British stamped the custom out. Knots of hair hung from many hilts, but the main decoration consisted of tassels of pheasant feathers dangling from their sheaths. Charms made of wild boar or crocodile teeth hung from their waists. Some displayed intricate patterns tattooed on throat and chest; a few sported Hollywood-style sunglasses. The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang. "It's more than...