Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks, load it into the ore carriers, then unload at the foot of the lakes, then ship by rail to Pittsburgh, the principal centre of processing, and then load the finished product on cars and either ship it to the Atlantic Coast for water shipment to the Pacific Coast markets, or ship by rail nearly 3,000 miles...
BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...
...Sorel, Quebec the freighter Königsberg, cargoing zinc oxide to Canadian consignees, received instructions, as did many other German vessels, to full-steam home before she could unload. Defying Canadian Revenue Department orders to stay put until she had done so, she cut her mooring lines, nosed off without warning. But, some 100 miles down the St. Lawrence, a police boat overhauled her. Its officers, acting for consignees who claimed they had paid up but had not received their oxide, held the Konigsberg's skipper on larceny charges...
With corn at 40?, farmers who had borrowed 57? a bushel on 257,000,000 bu. started to unload about 100,000,000 bu. on Commodity Credit Corp. Hurriedly Secretary Wallace bought steel bins to hold 50,000,000 bu., hoped this would prop up the sorry corn market...
...plus the hidden treasure of India and the mines of the Rand), will no longer add to the top-heavy U. S. gold cache ($15,867,000,000), some 60% of the world's supply. This means that English speculators will no longer be free to unload gold, which is of no present use to the U. S., in exchange for valuable U. S. securities and commodities...