Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the Coop's original plans contained no provision for off-street loading faculties, delivery trucks would have had to stop in the middle of Palmer St. to unload. The present loading situation, which is barely tolerable, would thus have gotten worse; Palmer St., in effect, would have become an unpleasant little alley permanently filled with trucks...
...major labor disputes. The fact was all the more remarkable because the disputes were not over bread-and-butter issues of pay or pensions, but over such questions as whether auto workers should smoke on the job and how many longshoremen should be available on the docks to unload arriving ships...
Grand Design. But for a man whose fiction has already put him in the 87% income tax bracket, there are more compelling rewards. "I do like to unload," O'Hara said. "I am a man of many interests. Every day when I read the papers I want to comment on something. If there's any grand design to my work, it has been to put down my time to the best of my ability, so that I will be as indispensable to historians of the future as Dickens is to the historians of the 19th century...
...York City's WINS, which had brought only $425,000 in 1952. Says a top staffer: "Radio stations are the ideal small business. They can be picked up for very little cash-down. They cost little to stay on the air, have few failures and are easy to unload...
...Making a go of it, Lykes fought the Federal Maritime Administration to win the right to become the first U.S. line to design its own ships, though they are partly paid for by federal subsidy. As a result, each Lykes ship is so equipped that it can load and unload all its own cargo without help of dock booms, can "turn around" in port in as few as five or six hours. Efficiency applies at the home office too. Turman rises at 4 a.m., breakfasts with his staff before 7 in the bleak company cafeteria. The early schedule...