Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHIP OF FOOLS. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make fast company for the long haul...
...Falmouth 3,200 miles away, thinking no one would pay any attention. No one did until a fortnight ago, when it suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters even clambered aboard to interview Manry at closer range. Then, heightening the drama, Manry went unsighted for a week before the last 55 miles to safety...
...founded an investment company called Algeco to buy up railroad tank cars at prices ranging from $7,000 to $26,000, then leased the cars to oil companies and skimmed off 20% of the revenue as a management fee. Today Algeco owns more than 8,000 tank cars that haul everything from crude oil to liquid gas all over Europe. Thanks to generous depreciation write-offs and almost constant use of the cars, the investors who own individual railroad cars earn 10% to 12% annually on their money...
SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy melodrama is by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make fast company for the long haul...
...swooped in with a company of marines to hit a pair of Red-infested villages on the Ca De River a few minutes after midnight. Muzzle blasts flared in the jungle darkness, and the marines killed one Viet Cong and captured 30 others. Sour Rice. Was such a small haul worth the effort? No one could measure precisely the toll of Viet Cong nerves and energy taken by the steady harassment from the air, especially from the fighter-bombers, which constantly swept over the countryside in search of targets. The toll was no doubt considerable, however. The pressure from...