Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirds of U.S. phonograph records, have refused to pay Petrillo's union a tribute for each record-which for the entire industry would total from $500,000 to $3,000,000 a year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt was readying up a crackdown on Mr. Petrillo, to show that the White House could be tough with labor...
Manna. In Oklahoma City, police spent a day counting a haul of seized whiskey, broke 158 pints, which leaked through the floor to eager collectors in the jail below...
...busy? . . .' " 'Nobody's ever so busy he can't take on something more, if he knows how to unload the detail. . . . We set up the blueprint of an organization. . . . We swear in the presidents of the companies as enforcement officers. They are instructed to haul the flag up over the plants and to exhibit the posters we send out explaining the situation. . . Last time we beat all records with the posters ... we got them out over the weekend...
...next great problem was to haul the harvest. Could the railroads do it? Usually the Santa Fe, largest U.S. wheat carrier, spots 10,000 wheat cars at key junction points for the harvest. But last week the Santa Fe, which owns 35,000 boxcars, could spare only 889. All other cars were carrying high-priority freight up & down the nation...
...bombs, gas and technical equipment must be flown in over the "Hump" route from India. Planes bringing in gas use several times the amount of their payload, just to get it there; the B-29s have proved to be their own most efficient tank cars. How much they can haul, and how often they can crank up new raids, now rates a spot well up on the crowded list of things the Japs must worry about...