Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bible or a volume of Swedenborg he usually carried, sleep on the hearth and be off at dawn, often leaving a few pages of his Bible behind him. Growing to believe that clothes were not for comfort but only to cover nakedness, he took to wearing a coffee sack with holes for his arms and legs. He ate no meat, lived chiefly on cornmeal mush...
...burlap, 3¾? per yd. Of all burlap imported from India, about 35% goes for automobile accessories, furniture wrapping and backing for linoleum and carpets. Ford Motor Co. used to buy 1,000,000 yds. a month for Model T upholstery. But the principal use for burlap is in sacks. In 1930 U. S. sack manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap to make one average sack, and nothing is better or as cheap...
...growers is to burn it in big, grey-green mounds. Since 1931 Brazil's National Coffee Department has sent $250,000,000 worth of Brazil's chief crop up in smoke. Last week the Department, estimating that the year's bumper crop of 26,000,000 sacks (132.2 Ib. apiece) would leave a 10,000,000-sack surplus to add to the accumulation already on hand, announced that this year it would buy 70% of the crop to burn. Daily burning quota will go up from 60,000 to 100,000 sacks, daily cost to Government...
...catcher, the alert Crimson baserunners marked up a third tally in the sixth. Frankie Owen hit sharply to the left garden, stole second and wound up at third when the Quaker backstop tossed one into centerfield. Johns walked and so effectively rattled Jeffers that he reached the middle sack as Owen slid home on the pitcher's balk...
Spoiling Ingalls' hopes for a shutout, the Penn third baseman, Field, gained the initial sack on a fielder's choice, reached second on Jim Hauze's liner through the pitcher's box, and scampered across the plate when a grounder skimmed through Johns legs...