Word: unloads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saturday afternoon at Holder Court, club representatives and hundreds of sophomores shivering in the icy wind stand with hands thrust in pockets or holding frigid beer cans, grouping and regrouping, talking in fast desperate undertones, trying to bargain friends into the same group, unload undesirables elsewhere, bid a sad goodby (as if parting forever) to classmates joining other clubs...
...importance since UNEF troops moved into position. Discreetly, Hammarskjold did not go to Sharm el Sheikh, where Egyptian guns for more than six years barred entry of Israeli ships to the Gulf of Aqaba. Today UNEF soldiers watch as some six vessels a month push up the gulf to unload in the small Israeli port of Elath. But neither the Israelis (who are grateful) nor the Arabs (who do nothing to prevent the traffic) are anxious to call attention to the situation...
...million worth of importers' funds. As a result, imports dropped an average $25 million monthly, were actually slightly behind currency-earning exports for the month of October. Moreover, inflation at home lost some of its steam. With the squeezing of bank loans, commodity traders were forced to unload their goods, and retail prices stopped climbing...
...Hong Kong, Canada's Trade Commissioner Max Forsyth Smith saw an opportunity to unload some of Canada's surplus wheat. Canada has not recognized Mao Tse-tung, and has no wish to offend the U.S. by doing so. But many Canadians blame the U.S.'s "dumping" of surplus wheat for Canada's own mountainous surplus. At week's end, with the approval of the government in Ottawa, Forsyth Smith prepared to go to Peking to see how much hard-pressed Mao Tse-tung would pay for a few million tons...
...Communists. Gamal Abdel Nasser mortgaged Egypt's one big cash crop -cotton-to pay for Soviet-bloc arms. But in midseason the Soviet bloc suddenly stopped buying, leaving the Egyptians with more than one-third of last year's crop unsold. The desperate Egyptians had to unload the rest at cut-rate prices. When the Egyptians found themselves strapped for hard currencies, their Russian friends let them have some Western currencies last summer-at a 20% premium. Now, with a new cotton crop heading for market, Cairo is at the mercy of its new customers. At one time...