Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe every American consulate, ministry, embassy swarmed with visa-waving U. S. citizens keen for a sight of Staten Island; at Villefranche, France, floated the U. S. Navy's Squadron 40-T, (the light cruiser Trenton, old destroyers Badger and Paul Jones) their steam up to haul U. S. nationals to embarkation points...
...blowing a gale last week off Brazil's coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...
Last month President's Message No. 51 laid facts & figures before L. & N. employes to dramatize Jim Hill's constant plea for small savings. To get the money to buy one lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
...Hill's 1938 salary ($51,777), it could be calculated that the road has to haul 6,472,125 tons of average freight a mile. Considering the fact that L. & N. has made money year after year while most other Class I roads are in the soup, he is doubtless worth...
...full load it will operate on one gallon of fuel per hour, is designed to replace one team of horses, will plow, disk harrow, cultivate, plant, haul or act as a small power plant...