Word: hauled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even Bethlehem Steel was sure how much it had bought. It hoped to get 1,000,000 tons, and might get double that, although it would take more than a year to haul that much to the U.S. There were thousands of tons of scrap such as landing mats and vehicles abandoned by the U.S. Army & Navy at war's end. This war surplus property, about an estimated $500,000,000 when it was new, had been turned over to China by the U.S. to pay a $174,000,000 reverse Lend-Lease debt. China had moved some...
...late the men of the Dom Miguel, Rosa Faustina, Salvador and Maria Manuel realized it. Weighed down in their heavy rubber boots, with the waves crashing over them, they tried to haul in their nets. But the nets wrapped themselves around the rudders. Men were swept overboard. The boats drifted about helplessly, within sight of shore. In hundreds of cottages along the coast, people cried out in distress. Women huddled in shawls ran down to the sea. Hours later, the first bodies were washed ashore...
...line's end in the city of New York, the 266 boxcars of the "Friendship Train were unloaded last week. With the contributions of New York, the cross-country haul of food donated for Europe's hungry added up to more than 12,120 tons...
...Wheat at $3 a bushel had sprouted a rash of "wheatleggers." Organized like racketeers, they case a remote granary, on a quiet night back their trucks up close, bore a hole, and fill up. A single haul may be worth as much as $1,300. Said Jake Sims, director of Oklahoma's Bureau of Criminal Investigation: "They've got a better racket than the bank robber. It's not only safer-there's more money...
...owners are parking on borrowed time. Only through the grace of the Cambridge police department are they able to leave their automobiles on the city streets overnight without punishment. City ordinances authorize the police to ticket offending cars or even to haul them away. With a complete file of registrations on hand in University Hall and open for city use, even out-of-state owners are now within the long reach...