Word: sacksful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present Calcutta price for jute is 3¾? per lb.; for 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...
South Africa can leave its diamonds in the ground but the only way to keep coffee expensive enough to suit Brazilian 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...
Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute...
In the harem's boom days (16th Century) the Chief Black Eunuch bossed some 600 to 800 of his kind; the Sultan Validé headed 1,200 women. Of these the Sultan legally married only four, but might go a-roving among the other 1,196. To pass the...
"It's nothing to what is was in the good old days--'27 and '28, actually truckloads of bottles and big ones, too, were picked up every Monday. The boys have been easing up since repeal and this fall it's only a couple of sacks," volunteered an old-time...