Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next month, Dave Beck's agents will begin descending on drivers of the nation's 6,000,000 trucks, wherever they stop-for a cup of coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...
...first time in the war he had seen from the air large groups of men actually locked in battle. Every village in sight was burning; the fields were covered with bodies. On his first runs the pilot had had a large rectangle into which to unload his supplies. By the third day the Communists had chewed it into a ragged L. A steady rain of shells poured in from all sides...
...Suchow, MacWilliams eased his plane into position beside a string of C-46s. A truck pulled up to his plane to unload the rice; his return load of soldiers was already waiting to board the plane. MacWilliams joined a group of American pilots beside one of the planes. As they talked the thump of artillery and aerial bombs was audible in the distance...
...cooperative plan," used by landlords to unload hundreds of apartments on tenants at fat profits, last week turned up in the hotel business. Arnold Kirkeby, who has an eleven-hotel chain, announced a plan to turn Manhattan's elegant, 492-room Hampshire House into a coop, and thereby make a pretty penny. Kirkeby's company bought Hampshire House two years ago for $3,550,000 and later borrowed $3,350,000 on it. So far it has earned him less than $700,000 before taxes, which makes Kirkeby think "we are not making much headway...
...spreads from Canada to Mexico, from the Rockies to the Pacific. The unions encompassed by his Western Conference of Teamsters move virtually "everything on wheels" in the eleven western states. His men send enormous diesel rigs snarling across the Mojave Desert, drive hearses in Oakland, deliver laundry in Seattle, unload mining machinery in Butte...