Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, Novelist Morris fishes so quietly, and in such common waters, that the uncommon quality of his haul may easily be overlooked. He has an insight which tells him that simple minds are only as simple as they are thought to be. Father is not just a stupid, henpecked husband, but a stifled human nature battling forlornly in middle age with the first problem of childhood: to establish an identity. Mother is not merely a domineering woman, but a terrifying archetype of the man-hater, a domestic tyrant whose methods could teach something to Machiavelli, perhaps even to Freud...
...invented"' the modern trailer and has paced the trailer industry for 36 years. In 1915, Roy August Fruehauf, a Detroit blacksmith and wagonmaker, was persuaded by his eldest son, Harvey (then earning $7 a week), to build a trailer with hard rubber tires and open slat sides for hauling lumber. He didn't think much of it, but Harvey thought it had such possibilities that he plugged it in trade journals with the slogan: "A horse can haul more than he can carry. So can a motor truck." The slogan worked so well for Fruehauf that the company...
...through the U.S., the same thing was going on last week. In Milwaukee, Fifth Army buyers paid $20 and $25 for items the Army had sold for $1. In Philadelphia, Army trucks drove up to Stanley Bernstein's Stan Textile Co. to haul away three truckloads of "surplus" war goods it had bought back from Bernstein...
Emergency Loan. In Long Beach, Calif., when the proprietor of a small grocery pleaded to the gunman holding him up that "We're poor, too," the gunman walked off with the day's take ($32), but promised, "I'll get a bigger haul than this and then I'll pay you back...
...judging from the fender bruises, they haul the cars in with a snowplow...