Word: baling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collect a ton or so a day to the big brokers who trade 100,000 tons, all say there is no money in scrap at that price. The junkies would rather collect paper, or work in a factory. The classification yards are short of men to sort and bale it. The brokers blame Washington's unimaginativeness and red tape...
...passengers contributed a bale of magazines and books, a phonograph for the wounded. Every morning the women rolled bandages and dressings, at card tables lined up as a workbench...
...back of a truck in Belgium a bale of posters fell to the road. Passersby, picking them up, found they contained, in parallel German and English text, regulations for Occupied Britain. But the truck from which the posters fell was headed away from the invasion coast into paper-starved Germany...
...great State fairs of the season opened in Shreveport, La., with all attendance records broken from Minne sota to Texas. The farmers were better dressed and had more money to spend; the exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts...
Every day bale upon bale of towels, sweatshirts, football togs, underwear, and other equipment is dumped into three huge machines in a University laundry whose equal only the Army can boast. Two barrels of soap even larger than the one John Hawkins hid in are consumed every week in washing the equipment; plenty of "sour" is added to spike any and all odors; and the bleach removes stains and discoloring...