Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada might still haul enough wheat by rail to Halifax to meet its promise to Britain. But the race would be close. Britain, which would like an extra 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, is unlikely to get any of it. Canada does not have it to spare, despite a near bumper crop of 418,000,000 bushels...
...Water Haul. In Cincinnati, a burglar climbed a ladder to a third-floor office, found the combination written on the door of the safe, followed the directions, opened the safe, found it empty...
Last week the masculine stare of the Senate's Mead Committee fastened on a list of the haul. The committee had nothing against women, as such. It just wanted to know how much taxpayers' money shipbuilders had lavished on honorarious baubles. The million-dollar tally sheet, 130 pages long, did not tell who paid the bill. But the faces that launched 5,500 ships were a gold mine for gossipers...
...grey half-light of dawn the waiting fishermen netted sockeyes by the thousands in the Strait. Captain Nels Floe in his 71-ft. Bligh Island reported a record catch of 15,225 fish in one haul; in one day 160 other seiners took 600,000 - worth about $1 apiece. As the sockeyes reached the river's mouth, an armada of 3,500 gillnet boats was waiting. Some novice fishermen were war veterans out for a quick stake. In other boats, the whole family lent a hand; enthusiastic moppets helped parents pay out cork floats and nets over creaking wooden...
...ground by paying marked money to dealers for the over-the-ceiling sales. One salesman was arrested after accepting $2,434 in marked money from an OPA agent for a new Chevrolet (ceiling price: $1,102); another was booked for demanding a $1,409 bonus. OPA's total haul for the day: 77 dealers and salesmen, who will be tried on criminal charges this week...