Word: baling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jinnah's government, living on day-to-day receipts, has tried some desperate salvage measures. It imposed a $5-a-bale export duty on raw jute moving from East Pakistan to the jute mills of Calcutta (in India). The tax violated a temporary free-trade agreement between the dominions. This would probably provoke retaliation from India, which could stop sending all coal and manufactured goods to Pakistan...
...estate in Maryland and a ten-room suite on Riverside Drive. He smoked eight-inch monogrammed cigarets and was always accompanied by two huge Great Danes ($10,000 each). He was one of the first romantic actors to get his fan mail by the bale, and it always included several hundred amorous propositions...
...They blinded Gus to Flora's shortcomings, but they could hardly conceal her size. "Although a large girl, Flora was scarcely more muscular than a hundred and fifty pounds of jelly. . . . She had the even disposition of a milch cow . . . and [admired] Gus as if he were a bale of clover hay. . . . When Gus spent an evening at home she mooed with happiness." Gus liked the moos, but not as much as the moola. With an elephant borrowed from the city's amusement park, he hoisted himself into the circus business...
...pretty well evaporated. Well covered by photographers, he dashed off autographs for a swarm, of half-clad Sapulpan moppets, who descended on the home of Mrs. Dewey's parents (see cut). Polishing up his grass-roots tactics, he stopped to admire a local farmer's improvised hay bale loader, commented knowingly that it was just what he needed on his own Pawling, N.Y. farm. By the time the Deweys moved on to Kansas City, Tom Dewey was in high gear...
...them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average at $4.70 and guaranteed to keep it there until the end of the year. With this artificially high floor under silk and with good quality Nylon available at $2.55 a pound, high-priced silk has gone begging. U.S.C.C. has imported some 86,000 bales, sold only 30,000. And Japan's 72,000-bale surplus is being increased by 5,000 bales a month...