Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girt water front of Fort-de-France. In shrill Martinique accents they sang the Marseillaise, cheered the new High Commissioner sent by the French Committee of Liberation, Henri-Etienne Hoppenot, and cursed the departing ruler, Vichyite Admiral Georges Robert. Offshore U.S. freighters, the first in eight months, waited to unload food for the hungry islanders, fuel for autos running on 8% gasoline...
When the dream finally came true, rival club-owners rubbed their palms. Here was a rich and unwary newcomer on whom they could unload some of baseball's expensive gold bricks. They had done it when Millionaire William Wrigley Jr. bought the Cubs, when Millionaire Tom Yawkey bought...
...Bushes have no hesitation in revealing that 18 months before the stock-market crash of 1929. Mrs. Bush predicted its coming, to the week. Mr. Bush took advantage of this information to unload 25% of his holdings - wishes it had been more...
...insurance companies sold partly by choice, partly because they had to. They wanted to unload because municipal bonds are quoted near the highest prices ever, many an insurance outfit had profits of five to 25 points. They had to sell because they needed cash to buy an ever-rising flood of Government bonds. Whatever the reason, this is a good break for private investors: 1) it makes up for the wartime slack in new municipal financing (towns & cities cannot get materials for new construction); 2) it gives them a crack at topflight bonds which have a good yield...
While at the anti-aircraft station, the Crimson contingent learned to take apart and assemble all types of ack-ack guns as well as getting experience in firing them. They also won the commendation of the station's officers by piling out of bed one night to unload a shipment of ammunition...