Word: haulings
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...mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does not regard that as enough of a challenge, opting to haul a 300-ton steamship in one piece...
Completing a cross-country drive from San Francisco. Roe pulled into Trowbridge St. in the early hours of September 3 and parked his Volkswagen Rabbit and U-Haul trailer. When he looked at the parking space three hours later, both Rabbit and U-Haul were gone...
...thieves had gone through the U-Haul and taken everything of salable value. "It was a very professional job," Roe said. "There were a few scraps that they disdained to steal--some old worn-out pants, things like that. But it was very carefully gone through...
Coop management is proud of its track record--and makes no bones about it. "They [the stores] feel they are serving the students," says vice president Donald P. Severance, who is also a development officer at MIT. Chimes in Argeros, "Over the long haul, a person shopping at the Coop gets quality, value--and a rebate." This is Argeros' chief selling point, and he invariably returns to it in discussion. "The biggest beneficiary of the Coop's progress are the members," he says, pointing out that increased profits mean bigger rebates for Coop members...
...dearth of the highly prized game fish in Scottish rivers follows a decade-long decline in the total salmon catch of Scotland's sport and commercial fishermen. Between 1972 and 1976, the average annual haul was 1,571 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,205 lbs.), but in the five years ending in 1981, it fell to 1,184 metric tons. In Scotland, where laws concerning salmon fishing date from 1030, the decline is viewed as a national affront. Says Sir Andrew Gilchrist, former chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board: "The culmination of increasingly bad years...