Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
What was proposed was that Germany buy on long-term credits a large quantity of the Federal Farm Board's 200,000,000 bu. of stabilized wheat and 1,300,000 bales of stabilized cotton. The Farm Board could thus unload some of its expensive holdings, U. S. commodity prices might be boosted, and the German Government would make some money. While Ambassador Sackett was diplomatically urging German officials to make an offer, President Hoover reviewed the "happy idea" with his cabinet. The Farm Board announced it was ready to sell to Germany on credit if the offer were...
...opium system: restricted sales under Government monopoly. If shrewd Minister Soong does harness opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that he will sail next month to confer with Dr. Soong...