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They come stuffed in red Chinese takeout bags with “Chinese food” crossed out and rewritten as “Pinoy pood” — joking slang for “Filipino food.”

We were deprived of half a milliard poods of coal imported from abroad.

Millions of poods of oil have been lost owing to the inefficient way in which it is reservoired and stored.

Twenty years ago the freights obtained for heavy goods were from 1.30 rubles, to 3 per pood, and from 6 to 10 rubles for light and bulky goods.

When you inquire what weight they are drawing, you will find that it is at least sixty poods, and they frequently draw a hundred.