Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orange ship ments rotted in the docks. At San Fran cisco $40,000,000 worth of cargo stood unmoved in the dockyards while in the bay 61 loaded freighters lay idle and deserted. Ship owners were losing more than $100,000 a day. At Portland the docks creaked with unloaded steel, meat, fruit and vegetables. A Japanese silk ship waited ten days to unload its cargo, finally sailed back home. Along San Francisco's Embarcadero strikers picketed all day, all night, 1,000 at a time. To break the strike snipping companies hired college boys, paid them...
...wheat-buying nation. Argentina (quota: 110,000,000 bu.) was willing to accept a higher price for its wheat on condition that its quota be raised this year 40,000,000 bu. Perfect weather had produced a bumper crop overflowing Argentina's limited granaries. The Argentines want to unload at any price. The three other big wheat-selling countries offered to lend Argentina 20,000,000 bu. of their quotas, provided she would reduce her acreage...
Morgan & Co. had been in a long position, but had had the misfortune to unload on Jan. 26, first day of the period under investigation. Nevertheless, the name of Morgan was enough to cloud the more significant revelation that during January the short position in seven leading air stocks increased from 4,000 to 44.000 shares. With that suspicious fact in view, Republican members of the Senate committee insisted that Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora begin an independent investigation to learn through what, if any, member of the Democratic Administration a leak might have sprung...
Havana dock workers announced that they would not unload cargoes from "certain places, those countries giving hospitality to Machado. ... In this way they will make it impossible for him to take shelter in any place, making life for him as impossible as he made it for so many thousands. . . ." Alarmed were the Associated Potato Shippers of New Brunswick who had expected a fine export business this season with Cuba whose 1933 potato crop is nearly...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...