Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point riot cars full of Schutzstaffeln (Hitler Elite Guards) took over. Rolling up to the university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
Walter Motor Truck Co.: an $11,000, six-man-cab tractor-trailer combine that can haul 20 tons over rough ground...
Until last March, U. S. readers had never seen an unexpurgated, full-length translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Then, simultaneously, two U. S. editions appeared. Publishers Houghton Mifflin,* who owned the copyright, sued Stackpole Sons for piracy. Stackpole refused to haul down their jolly roger. Said they: Hitler's copyright was illegal. Besides, said Stackpole, no royalties from their edition would go to Author Hitler. After preliminary legal skirmishes, a District Court last summer granted a temporary injunction, restraining Stackpole from selling their edition...
...South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...
...last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...