Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first few days, but this is a long-haul job. writing a daily column, and pretty soon they began to shove him back toward the goiter-cures and electric belts, as we say in our business...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...
...thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken down by Chinese officers of his command, one getting $600,000. 4) He got away safely to Hongkong with possibly the largest haul ever made by a Chinese commander in this classic maneuver...
...volumes, was most interesting for its accounts of the unconventional military maneuvers of savages and settlers, least impressive in its pictures of frontier romance. The August choice of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, Drums Along the Mohawk belongs in the imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their farm at Deerfield Settlement, shifts to a glimpse of the local militia harrying suspected Loyalists, to the burning of Deerfield...
...fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock. In his lawless career, the only man for whose death he was responsible...