Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hawaiian sugar growers have long been in an uncomfortably tight box. Their per-acre yields make them the most efficient producers in the world, but their high labor costs and long sea haul to market restrict them to selling in the high-priced, protected U.S. market. There, growth possibilities are virtually nil owing to 1) the public's fondness for dieting, 2) Government quotas on sales by foreign and domestic sugar producers...
Weight of Evidence. In Bowling Green, Ky., James England was arrested for burglary after he hired a taxi to haul off the goods he stole from a country club...
After giving up hope of a big haul, the thugs bound and gagged the Clutters, then cold-bloodedly slaughtered them one by one, shooting each in the head with a shotgun held a few inches away. Then, after carefully collecting the fired shells, the killers hurried away with their skimpy loot: a portable radio, a pair of field glasses, about $40 in cash. Why did they murder the Clutters? Explained Hickock: "We didn't want any witnesses...
...giving to the poor. When the Thai government nervously decided to move against this potential fifth column on its sensitive Laotian frontier, the local Thais themselves protested. Vietnamese women cut off their hair and wailed; children lay down in the highways to stop government trucks trying to haul Vietnamese out of the area...