Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deliveries to the East will be 11,200,000 bbl. short, 8.8% of East Coast demand. The shortage for the winter quarter will be 23,300,000 bbl. (15%), for the first quarter of next year, 19,400,000 bbl. Assuming that 10,000 deadweight tons of tanker can haul 375,000 bbl. of oil a quarter, the committee translated these barrel shortages into tanker shortages: 300,000 tons this summer, 636,000 tons this winter. It figured that 264,000 of these tons per quarter could be saved, in theory at least, thus...
...Association of American Railroads President Pelley's contention that the industry should yank 20,000 idle tank cars off sidings, the oilmen replied that these cars were a normal reserve required for coming peak movements. They questioned whether the railroads had the motive power to haul any more tank cars, and suggested that a better solution was to use present equipment more efficiently, and to use more tank trucks on short hauls...
...with death and fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every bombing of Japan would make the backdoor of the British Empire that much more secure. Urgent too was the Chinese need for transport planes to haul quickly needed vital materials from an Indian railhead to interior points. But the British out-begged them...
...above all the shift turned the heat on besieged, already broiling-hot Tobruch. For two months the British had clung to this inhospitable town because it lay athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would...
...wells ran dry in Indiana and Kentucky, farmers used trucks to haul water for their stock. In New York, garden crops were badly damaged, lack of hay and pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...