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Havana dock workers announced that they would not unload cargoes from "certain places, those countries giving hospitality to Machado. ... In this way they will make it impossible for him to take shelter in any place, making life for him as impossible as he made it for so many thousands. . . ." Alarmed were the Associated Potato Shippers of New Brunswick who had expected a fine export business this season with Cuba whose 1933 potato crop is nearly...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...
...physical activity in Wall Street, no matter how trivial, is sure to make runners, clerks, bondsalesmen et al. stop and gape. Large groups often gather about a man sawing a board. Last week when truckmen began to unload 60-lb. cases, neatly wrapped in matting, before the House of Morgan, the usual crowd swelled to near-riot proportions. Though the cases were plainly labeled "BLACK TEA-Product of China. Foochow, China," reports quickly spread that J. P. Morgan & Co. had received a huge shipment of gold from the Orient. Guards when questioned muttered: "We don't know nothing...
...wine waiting for legal floodgates to open. The first mouquin wine catalog since 1918 was issued last week in Manhattan. The firm announced that it would have a ship loaded with a million dollars worth of wine ready to sail into New York and unload an hour after sales became legal...
...Swish, splash, the Lindbergh plane alighted next day on a watery waste near Hinghwa, east of the Grand Canal and 70 miles from Nanking. With famished yells, Chinese in sampans and in tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward...