Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked with equal care for reliability and ease of repair under primitive conditions. The T-28s fly slowly (top speed: 346 m.p.h.) and low enough for pilots to sight and attack elusive guerrilla targets in the jungle. The transports can land on short, rough airstrios. The B-26s haul men, rockets and bombs, and ferret out enemy hide outs with ultramodern cameras...
...each night- there is work enough to buy at least some food. The unskilled refugees find jobs paying $1 a day as ditchdiggers, coolies, factory sweepers, stevedores. Children perch on street corners putting together plastic flowers for the U.S. market. Young mothers, with babies strapped to their backs, haul water up the mountainside...
...crowded that the government dusted off an old regulation forbidding more than 35 guests to be served at a time. Well-heeled candidates even rented elegant bungalows and hired entertainers and night watchmen, aiming to keep voters out of reach of other candidates until the time came to haul them to the polls...
Businessmen presumed that a crisis had been averted, although they feared that, over the long haul, John Kennedy would begin to listen harder to his activist economic advisers, who want him to intervene more often and more forcefully in the affairs of business. At very least, the atmosphere was plainly not conducive to price increases of any kind. In San Francisco, the nation's "blue jean king," President Walter Haas of Levi Strauss & Co., had planned to raise his own prices by 3%-though he had condemned the steel price rise as "unconscionable." In one of the week...
...Latin American workers that included 188 schools and 16 hospitals, cost $4,000,000 a year to run. Unlike its latter-day competitors, who buy their bananas from independent producers. United Fruit also had vast fixed investments in banana lands, workers' housing and rail lines to haul the fruit. Between 1957 and 1960, as the company's sales dropped from $342 million to $304 million, these pressures shrank its per-share earnings from...