Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Main difference is that this year's oyster haul is estimated at only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...
...Many tank cars now highballing the long 2,000-mile run from Texas to New England could be loaded with the same oil pumped from Texas to the Midwest through pipelines. The shorter haul would cut car mileage by half, turn-around time by at least 25%; thus help the railroads step up their deliveries from last week's 837,000 barrels daily to better than a million...
...Midwest stocks, even if made available, are blocked to the East by price hurdles as OPA, ODT, OPC, and WPB play their separate games for political control. It costs at least one cent more per gallon to bring oil east via the Great Lakes than it does to haul it by rail from Texas. Another difficulty is that gasoline still is more profitable to sell than fuel oils. Higher fuel oil profits in the East, smaller gasoline profits in the entire country might perform strange wonders...
...week record-collecting campaign came to an official halt this week, with returns still far from complete, Manhattan headquarters felt sure that the haul had netted at least 20,000,000 records-5,000 tons of scrap material...
West Coast fishermen have troubles too. The sardine haul normally runs over a billion pounds a year (onefourth of the entire U.S. catch), goes into food, fish oil, fish meal and fertilizer. But this year bad weather, the loss of Jap and Italian crewmen, and Navy restrictions on when & where fishermen can fish have slashed output as much as 50%. The valuable tuna catch has also slumped, for the big fish are caught only in deep water far offshore. Fish prices have not risen as in New England. Reason: the Government is buying the entire 1942 sardine and tuna catch...