Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union Divided. Time after time since World War II, a substantial number of men who load and unload ships have left the docks because they did not agree with Labor Boss Ryan, who in 1943 managed to get himself elected president of the union for life, at $20,000 a year. Four days after his Oct. 11 announcement that the contract had been ratified, longshoremen began to walk off the job. Gene Sampson, who heads one of the 32 New York-area locals, became their spokesman, as he had in previous revolts. The strikers, Sampson said, were dissatisfied with...
...Egyptians fell back on hot words and glorious tales. One Cairo paper issued an extra with a story, completely fabricated, of how a cucumber-laden truck, confiscated by the British, blew up when the hungry Tommies started to unload it, killing 250 men. Handbills crying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" appeared in British camps. Irregular units, fired with bloodthirsty language, popped out all over the delta...
Police said yesterday they will have to tag all cars parked between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. They feel that students have had enough time to unload their cars and find garage space...
...quonset huts, set in a small valley. Large letters on the roof of the largest hut spelled out TALA LEPROSARIUM FOR ALL TO SEE AND BE WARNED. Joey was there to greet us, and behind her were 300 men, women & children, all smiling and eager to help us unload the instruments, including the piano...
...Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal: goods must be long-hauled by rail 2,000 miles to the north. But to unload farther north on China's coast, ships must run the Nationalists' blockade...