Word: sacksful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruthlessly resolved to force coffee prices up, Brazil's National Coffee Council continues to burn coffee (TIME, July 6). It announced last week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing...
Just before the "golden" coins appeared, a Rumanian priest decided to buy the used Buick of the representative in Rumania of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A bargain was struck. That evening the priest appeared, riding in a two-horse carriage. He had with him twelve huge gunny sacks stuffed to...
"Certainly, sir," beamed the Civic Cashier. "There is your money!" It consisted of 28 sacks of "golden" coins weighing in all nearly a ton. Grumbling, the contractor took his money, carted it away in a motor truck.
Accompanied by Jerry ("Jerry the Greek") Luvadis, his rubber and body servant, and Leonard Sacks, his smooth spoken Hollywood secretary and business manager, Dempsey left to continue his tour in Louisville, Ky. (where Governor Ruby Laffoon was to give him the rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff...
That was not all the Governor did. When the army got to Harrisburg he made them a speech, told them he sympathized with their demonstration, fed them all, provided shelter for the night. Father Cox's red truck rolled up to the outskirts of Washington in a torrential rain at...