Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havre, as an "entente cordiale gesture" to U. S. strikers, French dockworkers refused to unload the U. S. Line's S. S. Washington...
...Buffalo to Brooklyn. Not reflecting that dry ice evaporates to carbon dioxide gas again, that carbon dioxide in an unventilated room displaces oxygen without which no man can live, and that it is therefore a modern occupational hazard, two Brooklyn stevedores descended into the ship's hold to unload cases of cherries. They had time only to cry alarm before they dropped unconscious. Three other stevedores who went to the rescue also suffocated. All five were dead before they could be lifted to fresh...
...anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems of bananas odorously rotting in the hold of S. S. California...
...inch. So discouraged was Mediator Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, that he bought a ticket for Washington canceled it only on orders from Madam Secretary Perkins. At week's end he felt somewhat better as both sides agreed to resume parleys, the strikers agreed to unload perishable goods...
...Aberdeen, N. C., M. S. Hawkins, tobacco "farmer," was sleeping in the cab of a truck which he had driven into a tobacco warehouse the night before, intending to unload and sell his tobacco the next day. Mr. Hawkins dreamed that he was crossing a railroad track, that his vehicle was about to be struck by an oncoming train. At that critical juncture in his dream a fast freight actually roared by along a track near the warehouse, with a jangle of bell and blast of whistle. Not waiting to open the door, Tobacco Grower Hawkins hastily dived through...