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We’re selling everything you might expect: sleds, but also salt, shovels and firewood. – Travis Wagler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The ability to use on-premise media, and in particular digital signage and digital out-of-home media, allows brands and retailers to be reactive and provide contextually relevant content and advertising, think coffee promotions in the morning or marketing hot chocolate or snow shovels ahead of a big snow storm. – Mark Boidman	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Tunnelers have worked around the clock, using pickaxes, shovels, buckets and shifts of 2-12 people at a time. – The HS2 Rebellion group	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In the Gold Rush it was the people who were making the picks and shovels for gold miners that made the most money. This is a case of a company that has absolutely nothing to do with cannabis historically, yet it's benefiting from the picks-and-shovels opportunity. – Pavel Molchanov	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Investors are always looking for crypto 'picks and shovels', and that's what this is. – Jehan Chu	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I want to see shovels in the ground, and things being built, i want to see houses being built to code and a power system under construction that will withstand a storm. Mike Byrne said FEMA’s efforts in Puerto Rico have been unprecedented – with $ 6 billion spent so far. About $ 16 million has gone to San Sebastian. The mayor there said the reason for the slow recovery was poor planning before the storm, and bad leadership afterward. – Mike Byrne	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It will take a few days to get the plant up and in condition to start handling feed. The mine can get going as soon as the trucks and shovels are ready, but it will take the plant a bit longer to become functional, there are a lot of different units that run to make everything happen up there, it's a very complex work site. – Ken Smith	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It will take a few days to get the plant up and in condition to start handling feed. The mine can get going as soon as the trucks and shovels are ready but it will take the plant a bit longer to become functional, there are a lot of different units that run to make everything happen up there, it's a very complex work site. – Ken Smith	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
At a dinner table everyone slows down; you are actually tasting it, and you probably eat less because you're not shoveling it down, well, the president shovels sometimes. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Local volunteers and police personnel are digging through six-feet (deep) snow with shovels looking for more bodies. – Gautam Rimal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Officers were running around flagging down trucks, trying to see if anyone in the area had a shovel, we were using (EMTs') back braces to try to remove snow. People were clawing at it. Eventually, between good Samaritans, truck drivers coming by with shovels in their beds, we were able to get a decent amount of shovels. – Brandon Rola	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river. – Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything. – Jerry Coleman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We’re selling everything you might expect: sleds, but also salt, shovels and firewood.

– Travis Wagler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The ability to use on-premise media, and in particular digital signage and digital out-of-home media, allows brands and retailers to be reactive and provide contextually relevant content and advertising, think coffee promotions in the morning or marketing hot chocolate or snow shovels ahead of a big snow storm.

– Mark Boidman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Tunnelers have worked around the clock, using pickaxes, shovels, buckets and shifts of 2-12 people at a time.

– The HS2 Rebellion group

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In the Gold Rush it was the people who were making the picks and shovels for gold miners that made the most money. This is a case of a company that has absolutely nothing to do with cannabis historically, yet it's benefiting from the picks-and-shovels opportunity.

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Investors are always looking for crypto 'picks and shovels', and that's what this is.

– Jehan Chu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I want to see shovels in the ground, and things being built, i want to see houses being built to code and a power system under construction that will withstand a storm. Mike Byrne said FEMA’s efforts in Puerto Rico have been unprecedented – with $ 6 billion spent so far. About $ 16 million has gone to San Sebastian. The mayor there said the reason for the slow recovery was poor planning before the storm, and bad leadership afterward.

– Mike Byrne

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It will take a few days to get the plant up and in condition to start handling feed. The mine can get going as soon as the trucks and shovels are ready, but it will take the plant a bit longer to become functional, there are a lot of different units that run to make everything happen up there, it's a very complex work site.

– Ken Smith

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It will take a few days to get the plant up and in condition to start handling feed. The mine can get going as soon as the trucks and shovels are ready but it will take the plant a bit longer to become functional, there are a lot of different units that run to make everything happen up there, it's a very complex work site.

– Ken Smith

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

At a dinner table everyone slows down; you are actually tasting it, and you probably eat less because you're not shoveling it down, well, the president shovels sometimes.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Local volunteers and police personnel are digging through six-feet (deep) snow with shovels looking for more bodies.

– Gautam Rimal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Officers were running around flagging down trucks, trying to see if anyone in the area had a shovel, we were using (EMTs') back braces to try to remove snow. People were clawing at it. Eventually, between good Samaritans, truck drivers coming by with shovels in their beds, we were able to get a decent amount of shovels.

– Brandon Rola

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.

– Chinese Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

– Jerry Coleman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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