Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudly claiming sanctuary as members of Shanghai's International Settlement, Japanese transports last week continued to unload troops, horses, shells, medicine and munitions at the docks of the International Settlement, where Chinese are pledged to do no fighting. French and British finally succeeded in closing their section of the Settlement to passage of Japanese troops or the madly careening trucks that caused almost as much damage as shell fire. U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell, British Admiral Sir Charles Little, backed by the French naval commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented...
...Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their upkeep. New York's present Mayor Fiorello...
Ships bringing goods into New York Harbor may unload at the free port without so much as a by-your-leave to the U. S. Treasury. In this zone, operated as a public utility under Federal supervision, goods may be "stored, broken up, repacked, assembled, distributed, sorted, graded, cleaned, mixed with foreign or domestic merchandise," and finally re-exported 1) to foreign countries or 2) to the U. S. by paying duty in the ordinary way. The various operations that can be performed in the free port are called "manipulation," since by the terms of the law "manufacturing" is forbidden...
...forces are cannily at play in the bull-ring," said I. Witkin & Co.'s colorful market letter, "we prefer for the time being to be on the sidelines or in the grandstand. Possibly to help a huge and financially powerful long-interest, if our conjectures be correct, to unload upon a heterogeneous and unorganized investing public and manufacturers at large is to court an attack of speculative indigestion. . . ." Gently, then precipitously, cocoa prices fell...
...Jack Dempsey, Harold Lloyd and Billy the Kid. His first practical mining experience was on a steam shovel on a copper property at $4 per day. Even in high school, however, he was taking long shots on penny mining stocks with notable success. In 1921 he went East to unload a big stock of gasoline owned by a pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York Stock Exchange firm two years later. About him he gathered a group of people mostly oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted the centrifugal method of making cast iron...