Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold 123,622 shares of Pittsburgh Coal Co. stock to his Union Trust Co. for $500,000, claiming a $5,600,000 loss for income tax purposes, after which the shares were purchased by a Mellon family folding company. Last week Mr. Mellon declared that he had wanted to unload the stock for years but could find no takers. Tightlipped, menacing, Counsel Jackson advanced on the witness. "You don't mean to say," barked he, "that you had no opportunity to sell before December...
Taxicabs coming through Cambridge and along Memorial Drive are requested to turn left at Putnam Square into Putnam Avenue to Flagg Street and Flagg Street to Memorial Drive where they may unload their passengers at Mac Nameo Square which is at the Cambridge end of the John W. Weeks Bridge...
...handlers normally employed by the Union Stock Yards to feed, water, unload, load, drive and weigh cattle struck originally last November for better wages and hours. That strike was quickly settled when it was agreed to submit all questions in dispute to an arbitrator. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan was suggested by the union and accepted by the company. On June 1 he rendered a decision: A 10% to 25% wage increase retroactive for 13 weeks, a 40-hour work week and the stipulation that those terms were to be binding on both parties until June 1935. Six weeks after...
...fortnight past Seattle and Portland shipping men had loaded and unloaded a handful of ships at a couple of docks under the menacing eyes of resentful strikers. In their ports close to 75 ocean ships lay helpless. At Los Angeles' well-defended port, shippers were masters of the situation and kept cargoes moving about as usual. But in San Francisco hardly a vessel could load or unload. Scores of freighters had dumped their cargoes on the docks and sailed away in water ballast. Out in the Bay 89 deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted...
Last week President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Secretaries of War, Commerce and the Treasury to set up in U. S. ports "free trade zones," composed of docks and warehouses carefully fenced off from the rest of the tariff-bound U. S. There vessels will unload their goods and store them for reshipment without any customs formalities. Four such free zones may be established, one at New York, another elsewhere on the Atlantic coast, one at a Gulf port, one at a Pacific port...