Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used. Unburned coupons sometimes blasted right up the stack and out again; unscrupulous finders might pick them up and use them. At last WPTB hit on a system that looked foolproof. They sacked the coupons, sent them along in armored trucks to the E. B. Eddy paper plant in Hull. While WPTB inspectors watched, the coupons were dumped into a beater vat. When the last coupon had disappeared into the bubbling mass of pulp, the inspectors went home...
...down the coast it was the same story. A fishing boat with a well built into its hull to keep its catch alive steered into one of the streaks. As soon as the yellow-green water got into the well, the captive fish swam to the surface, gulping air. Then they were as dead as their uncaught fellows outside...
...basis of the U.S. State Department's policy would be Cordell Hull's 1934 Trade Agreements Act. With that Act Hull had attacked the economic nationalism of high tariffs-not only in the U.S. but in all countries. Hull did not advocate unrestricted free trade but trade free of "malignant restrictions''; he demanded reasonable tariffs reduced reciprocally for mutual benefit. This was the delicate flower which Under Secretary of State Will Clayton now cultivated...
Under the "Hull program the U.S. has negotiated reciprocal agreements with 29 nations. Concessions have been made in 1,250 tariff items. Had any U.S. industries suffered as a result? The principal complaints came from, makers of pottery, watches, handmade glassware and lace; and from the cattle industry. But, according to State, those U.S. enterprises have not really been hurt by lower tariffs. Cattlemen, for example, complained that during 1936 a shipment of Canadian cattle had depressed the Minneapolis market. State countered that large cattle shipments frequently depress markets, locally and temporarily; a shipment from South Dakota might have...
Fossil Punts. In Britain, where amateur archeologists rummage for everything from Piltdown Man to Saxon arrowheads, two Yorkshire brothers struck pay mud in the River Humber. Since boyhood, Ted and William Wright had scoured the country near Hull, looking for likely sites. Best bet, they decided, was a mud bank in the Humber; it ought to be full of interesting stuff washed down the river since ancient days...