Word: unloadings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally at two o'clock on the dot a car pulled up to unload five "fools," one rooster, one hen, one pig, one heifer, one dog, one goat, and one skunk. The crowd surged up Plympton Street, through the main gate, up the steps of Widener, in the front door, and through the reading room, band, animals, and enlookers which by this time included most of the Cambridge Latin student body...
Higher & Higher. The new facilities, to be completed late this year, will solve some, but not all, of Buenaventura's problems. They will allow more ships to dock at the same time and will provide storage for the goods they unload. But about 30,000 tons of cargo are unloaded monthly at Buenaventura, only 25,000 tons can be carried out. Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin cabled this description...
...force manufacturers to unload hoarded stocks, taxes were upped. To nip the credit inflation, he halved the lending power of Italian banks. To tide over small companies, the government formed the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, a sort of RFC. In two months it has already made loans of 5 billion lira...
...that poultry, olive oil and sugar prices were down 20 to 50%; meat which had cost up to 900 lira a week before could be bought for under 500. Farmers, who had refused to sell their products when the lira was becoming more worthless every day, now hastened to unload as it increased in real value...
...army of 5,000,000 workers. Less than a third of this great mass is actually Communist, but the Cocos hold three-fifths of the top executive jobs in all major unions. At the strike-bound port of Marseille, where Red violence exploded last fortnight, U.S. seamen refused to unload U.S. ships. To them Benoît Frachon, who conceals unlimited brutality beneath a mask of affability, telegraphed appreciation of their sympathy with "French workers in their courageous fight against the imperialism of the Marshall Plan...