Word: unloadings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Wickard hopes his appeal to the farmers' patriotism may cut wheat planting by 15,000,000 acres. But the profit motive is working hard against him. The farm bloc has fixed the crop-loan law so that farmers can unload their wheat on the Government at $1.14 a bushel v. 98? last year and 65? the year before...
...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...
...last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent to Greece...