Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were hit, and the British oil tanker Maryat was destroyed. Although some British captains were reported as ready to give up the lucrative Spanish Leftist trade, in which handsome bonuses for safe deliveries have been handed out, off the ports of Valencia and Alicante numerous ships still waited to unload their cargoes...
Even the experts at the police laboratory found such grenades too dangerous to leave about. Two army trucks rumbled over from Versailles to take the grenades to a munitions depot where experts could uncap and unload them...
...group of Government employes struck-not in Washington, not in the U. S., but aboard ship on the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. The crew of the S. S. Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick Kennedy's National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...
...docked in the home port. But once a ship has sailed, to strike is mutiny. In Montevideo last week the Algic's Captain Joseph Gainard reported his plight to the U. S. Vice Consul, who went aboard, harangued the mutineers for an hour. Still they refused to unload ship. So Captain Gainard and the Vice Consul shot a cable to the owners...
...this year in grain harvested and threshed the previous alltime Russian record of 105,000,000 metric tons. All Soviet grains have done well in 1937 with the possible exception of corn. In Rotterdam grain traders were glum as the Soviet Union reopened its selling agency, apparently ready to unload on Europe this fall enough produce to depress prices seriously. Within a few hours Russia's Rotterdam agents were selling wheat and barley in such volume that the Soviet Union's offerings were virtually setting the European market prices for these grains. In the Ukraine, "Granary of Russia...