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Car
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Car
A loose quantity term sometimes used to describe the amount of a commodity underlying one commodity contract; e.g., "a car of bellies." Derived from the fact that quantities of the product specified in a contract once corresponded closely to the capacity of a railroad car.


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Thus, whereas in 1943, Soviet troops consumed 3,261,000 tonnes of fuel and lubricants and 4,417,700 tonnes of bread and baked products, in 1944, the numbers increased to 3,846,000 tonnes and 5,468,000 tonnes, respectively, with 55,000 more rail carfuls of ammunition sent to the fronts.
They hauled carfuls of boomers to drive-in movies, played baseball with them in the back yard, spent Christmas Eves assembling bicycles.
 
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