Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already the doubtful nature of this hoarded asset has caused a decline in the Brazilian currency-the milreis. Sooner or later the Government must unload. Recent crops have been bumper. Most observers believe that the Government cannot hold out, faces an eventual catastrophic coffee crash. Shrewdest coffeemen do not know when the crash will come, but last week's howling and hopping seemed of ominous significance...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming from Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street on Western Avenue about 200 yards from Soldiers Field. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWolfe Square on the Parkway about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...
...every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift when he brought the idea of canned soup to a reality, and both he, and the farmers are reaping the golden harvest as a result. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS Philadelphia...
Minister Euler also told the House of Commons that on occasion U. S. Customs agents even assisted rum-runners to unload their cargoes. He said: "No effort, so far as we can see, is made by the U. S. to seize any of these boats. The U. S. customs always are notified by us an hour or two before the boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them...
...quick tandem bicycle sprint from the CRIMSON Building down to Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...