Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanders had not expected his ad to bring in a first-morning sheaf of orders (it didn't). He did it as a missionary gesture. Like most transportation bugs, Sanders expects a revolution in railroad equipment -perhaps after the war, when men and materials will be more obtainable, when vast fleets of cargo planes may force the roads to run 80-to 90-mile-an-hour freights or get off the tracks...
...been called by Uncle Sam, and Bud Waldstein and Stan Durwood, two capable reserves who went on pro after finals last year, the Crimson outlook is growing brighter day by day as Coach Dick Harlow whips a number of rapidly-improving Sophomores into shape as reserves, and a sheaf of men from the injured list return to active duty today...
Holding in his hands a sheaf of white paper, Senator Mead of New York rose in his place one day last week to read the report of the Special (Truman) Committee Investigating the National Defense Program...
...store, with the levy based on all stores owned by a chain, not just those in Utah. But the Legislature had passed it over farmer-labor protest, and the Governor signed it even after his own Attorney General had declared some parts unconstitutional. With these talking points and a sheaf of petition forms, notarized Association solicitors started a door-to-door trek April 1. Business houses, factories, even independent stores helped, and last week 67,507 voters (27% of the 246,940 who took part in the last election) had signed. The tax is suspended until the November 1942 election...
This was not too remarkable, for a few days earlier Vice Premier Admiral Darlan of France had given out a fat sheaf of statistics on steady French cargo traffic through the British blockade in the Mediterranean. While the British had sunk seven French food ships, said Admiral Darlan, they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut...