Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings, countrified by fieldstone fireplaces, are shaded by well-kept maples and oaks, bordered by neat shrubbery. At 9 each morning six big school busses and more than a dozen station wagons and cars roll up, unload well-scrubbed tots and adolescents from Bronxville, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Riverdale, The Bronx, Manhattan. At 5 each afternoon, they roll home again...
Last week, less than four months after the U.S. entered World War II, the railroads had again to embargo most export freight moving to seaboard. The congestion in the ports had reached a point where in some places it was necessary to unload goods into open fields in order to empty freight cars...
Because of these bottlenecks, truckers cannot load their trucks to capacity, or must unload from one large vehicle to several smaller ones. Goods for Army & Navy as well as for defense factories are held up for hours-hours that are just as perilously lost at the beginning of the trek as in the last ten miles behind the battle line. Some hair-raising case histories...
...stock will have to be laid in for winter. The pinch is so sharp that it may be necessary to ship most of the return-voyage coal by rail, rushing the boats back empty. Coal takes only three to five hours to load, but eight to twelve hours to unload...
...sent to one pier were told by Army chiefs to stand by, as the cargo was not yet available. After two hours they were told to start loading onions. They loaded onions for three hours. Then they were told a mistake had been made. They were ordered to unload the onions...