Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the Galápagos, first discovered in 1535, once again make history. For several centuries they were a famed stopping place for buccaneers and whalers, who took along the islands' giant (400 Ib.) tortoises for fresh meat, and set up a primitive post office (in a barrel) which still provides free mail delivery. In 1835 they made scientific history: Charles Darwin visited them, found that half of the islands' birds and flowers had no counterparts elsewhere, gathered data that later gave him the idea for his Origin of Species...
...short crop and increased operating costs have jacked prices up about 10% to $912 a barrel, depending upon size. Since there is no OPA ceiling on fresh oysters, prices might have gone still higher except that hotels and restaurants balked, said they could not pay more when their oyster bar prices have been pegged at a flat 50 or 60? per dozen for years. With the haul down more than prices are up, the U.S. oyster industry will take in about $8,000,000 this year, somewhat less than...
...designer was a plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...
...Great Lakes tankers have hauled oil west from pipeline heads at Toledo instead of to Buffalo for connection with Erie Canal barges. Fully utilized, the capacity of the Canal could be stepped up to 150,000 barrels daily from its present 50,000-barrel trickle. At this rate, from last May to the close of navigation this winter the East would have gained 20-odd million barrels...
...Buffalo-to-Philadelphia Keystone Pipe Line has lain idle since spring for lack of oil at the lakehead. Lost to the East is the line's minimum 16,000-barrel daily capacity...