Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Thomas admitted that he had ordered his broker to close out his holdings. But he was not going to let Senator Homer Ferguson's subcommittee haul him up for a public grilling. He would stand on his congressional immunity. "I'm not going to let them make a Roman holiday out of me," he said...
...Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved that the dogs knew what to do with a grounded chute. Crowed an airman: "Instinctively, the dogs run to the chute...
...several months, the Gestapo located one of his transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul, can be explained only by their thirst for personal success...
...wasn't. So did many a manufacturer who bought a steel plant and went into the business to make sure he got what he needed. Toward year's end, the steelmakers hedged their arguments and started to spend some $2 billion for expansion. (They also started to haul back desperately needed scrap from Germany and the jungles of Pacific islands.) But few thought the expansion enough to end the great steel shortage which had cut down production all along the line...
Mount Tremblant is a name to make over-the-border enthusiasts glow with respect. But nationalists term it a 4000 foot chair lift haul to the top of trails no better than those to be found at Stowe or Bromley...