Word: unloading
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...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...
...himself as they rocked and roared ashore. Wet and bedraggled, he leaped out on a desolate beach on the edge of the bush, marched up to the only Liberians in sight. They were half a dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world is free of tyrannical dictators." One of the boatmen shook hands. The rest, who had paused solemnly to listen, went back to their work...
...cart was heavy with flour sacks. A Red Cross man helped to unload the food, began the distribution at once. By late afternoon all had received a portion of flour. The bake ovens were fired and bread was soon piled on the kitchen tables. For a few days the children of Issari could see the loaves with their own eyes...
...victim of U.S. price-fixing is the huge and highly complicated business of feeding the people. This is the only industry whose major raw-material costs have been left completely out of control (except as the Government can keep the prices of a few items down by threatening to unload some of its surplus holdings). With selling prices tied tight and costs free to rise, food processors, wholesalers, brokers and retailers have been squeezed against OPA ceilings...