Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profitable to grow these crops and turn them over to the Government at the support price. If there were no production controls, then any farmer with enough capital and know-how could grow as much wheat or cotton as he could find land to plant it on, then unload the stuff on the Government. Price supports and controls inevitably go together in agriculture, as they do in other sectors of national life-diminished freedom is the seamy side of the welfare state...
...ground rules within which to work. Disposal of the 63 million G.M. shares that Du Pont owns outright must begin no later than Aug. 1; the shares may be distributed to Du Pont stockholders or disposed of in any other way the company sees fit. Thereafter, Christiana Securities must unload the 535,500 G.M. shares that it now holds, plus the 18.5 million shares that it stands to receive if Du Pont should decide simply to divvy up its G.M. holdings amongst its shareholders...
...soldiers clad in off-duty slacks and Hawaiian shirts. White-helmeted U.S. military police stroll in pairs past the bars and nightclubs of the Rue Catinat. In the high blue sky lie the geometric patterns of contrails from U.S. jets, and at Saigon's busy docks, U.S. ships unload wheat, flour, trucks and military hardware-all the material needed to complete Harkins' mission...
...most intricate and contentious antitrust struggle of modern times involves a great American dynastic fortune and more than 1,000,000 U.S. investors. When, last May, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Du Pont company to unload its 23% interest in General Motors, investors in both companies braced for a financial shellacking. It seemed certain that the disputed 63 million shares of G.M. would be distributed as "dividends" to Du Pont's 211,000 common stockholders, who then would have to pay full income taxes on them. Du Pont estimated that its stockholders, many of whom...
...town had been without water and light for weeks; now, everything had been arranged to unload the plane and greet the officials who came along with it from Leopoldville. But as the big U.N. Globemaster rolled to a stop with its cargo of electric generators, everything dissolved into typically Congolese chaos...