Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them on a jump seat. Next evening, air-shaken and weary, they stood through a publicity cocktail party before going to their bridal suite, where they were now & again called to the door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows. In future, equally hardy couples may get trips to Paris, new cars...
...Aerovias Brasil, S.A. (TACA's Brazilian subsidiary) started flying in 1942 from the backlands of Brazil via Porto Nacional to Miami to haul rock crystal. With DC-35 acquired only four months ago, it now competes with Pan Am for passenger traffic between Rio de Janeiro and Miami...
...seiner Angle and Florence, out of Gloucester, Mass., was about to bag a school of mackerel. The boat towed the net, buoyed and weighted, around the milling fish. Next step was to close the "purse" and haul the mackerel aboard...
...said Minister MacKinnon, Canada feels a moral obligation not to gouge her customers (chiefly Great Britain and the small nations of Europe) now, when they are starving. This was not only bigheartedness on Canada's part. In the long haul, said Jim MacKinnon, Canada would benefit by being generous. "Higher wheat prices [now] would encourage the importing countries in a hurried return to wheat production" of their own, to Canada's ultimate detriment. There was a domestic reason for the decision as well: it would hold the line against inflation...
Nevertheless, Congress was on edge to get demobilization going even faster. The public had put the heat on Congressmen, and they passed it on to the War and Navy Departments. Suddenly the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to haul in War Department officials for questioning. When Under Secretary Robert Patterson pointed out that the rate of discharges had already passed 10,000 a day, a Senator replied, "We are getting 10,000 letters...