Word: baling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
...great fists in his coat pockets. Deep in his heavy chops he grips a cigar the size of an auto's gearshift, and like a gearshift the cigar slides slickly from point to point along the wide mouth. A mountain in a white suit, rumpled, tired, his whitening bale of hair shaking as he walks, the 61-year-old labor leader strolls and ponders...
Senator: "I'd like to see some of you fellows who wear out desk tops in Washington set to raising cotton. After you finally got one bale, you'd be so damned tired you'd think you ought to get a dollar a pound...
...both days voting will take place in the House dining halls at all meals, in the Dudley Commuter's center, and on Wednesday afternoon, in Memorial Hall before and after the Economics A exam. Ballots will also be avail bale in the clubs and the Signet Society, and in Wednesday between 11:45 and 1 o'clock...
Harvard crews swept the Charles again Saturday afternoon, as Bert Haines' three 150-pound eight defeated their Yale and Princeton rivals over the Henley course and Eliot House set back an eight from Bale's champion Trumbull College crew...