Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Andreas indicated that the Russians might eventually take 150 million lbs. of each commodity. That is more than half the Agriculture Department's hoard of butter and almost a sixth of its larger store of cottonseed oil, both of which Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson would love to unload...
Hopper Helper. A new freight car for bulk shipments of dry powdered commodities (feed, chemicals), which formerly had to be transported in containers, was put into production by General American Transportation Corp. The car contains bins with slanted sides lined with a porous, silicon-treated fabric. To unload the car, air is blown at low pressure under the fabric, breaking up hard-packed cargo so that it flows like water through hatches under...
...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
...would at a round-table affair, with all kinds of chances to create diversions and confusions. Furthermore, the U.S. feared that it might be thrown on the defensive in such a round-table conference, with Britain, perhaps, pressing for more trade with Communist China, or the French trying to unload their commitments in Indo-China, or the Indians calling for U.N. recognition of Communist China and the neutralization-if not surrender-of Formosa. Besides, Syngman Rhee had warned Dulles that South Korea would not sit in the conference if India were there...
...unload their lots, some harried dealers resorted to all sorts of come-ons. Customers were promised everything from a $10,000 life-insurance policy (one year prepaid) and a 125-piece silver-plated service to 200 gallons of gas free with every car costing over $1,000. A Chicago dealer advertised a '41 Chevrolet for $175, and "this '42 for a penny." A Dallas dealer reduced the price of a car every three hours until it was sold. A Los Angeles salesman promised a 25-by-100-foot lot (including mineral and oil rights) with every used...