Word: baling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every commodity trader knows, the farm bloc's votes are as good as Bankhead's expansive promises. Therefore the traders cheerfully hoisted cotton prices another $1.30 a bale, pushed grain prices...
...cotton from the corporation at world prices or to pay farmers the current domestic prices, then sell the commodities abroad at the much lower competitive world price and collect the difference from the Government. The difference will be big: U.S. cotton now costs between $15 and $25 a bale more than Brazilian cotton...
...Under cover of theoretical researches at the Collège de France, he led in the organization of 18 laboratories for making explosives and incendiary bottles for resistance units. At least twelve Nazi tanks were destroyed by the bottles. Huge quantities of guncotton were made from cotton received a bale at a time. Radio transmitters and receivers were assembled for the underground despite, in some cases, Nazi occupancy of the same buildings. Joliot continued the publication of L'Université Libre, which reached a fortnightly circulation of a thousand...
...questionable" part occurs when a storm upsets the lifeboat. The only man with enough presence of mind to keep the lifeboat afloat is Walter Slezak, the Nazi submarine commander. He orders the others to bale out the water. After the boat has been righted, Slezak is in command. He rows the boat with apparent ease toward a Nazi carrier. While the others are weary and sick with hunger and thirst, Slezak remains fresh and gay, singing German songs...
...Lieut. Colonel Frederick Borth, former professor of the Louisiana State University. . . made the mild observation that in connection with the handling of toilet-paper rolls, the Army was shipping thousands of cubic feet of air space overseas daily. So why not bale toilet paper...