Word: hauls
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...aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe he was backstage getting an autograph...
...spite of the nurse situation, the blood committee is instigating an intensive drive for more pledges. The fall campaign fell short of its 200 man quota with 186 pints. The committee hopes to fill the deficit with an overflow haul during this drive, although only 80 sigaces are now registered...
...industry plans to improve and expand production facilities one-third by a $4 billion investment. But Jersey's Holman pointed out last week that steel was still the big bottleneck. Steel is needed for casings for new wells, for new refineries, for pipelines and for tank cars to haul the product. Until that bottleneck is cracked, the U.S. will have to make do with present production...
...Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved that the dogs knew what to do with a grounded chute. Crowed an airman: "Instinctively, the dogs run to the chute...
...several months, the Gestapo located one of his transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul, can be explained only by their thirst for personal success...