While looking for something else, I stumbled across this Amazon offer (clicky for more dots):
Yeah, a trailer load a’ paper. Word.
Long ago, in a universe far away, my buddy Mark One mis-read a unit of measure and ended up with a trailer load a’ Tektronix Thermal Paper. It carried a silver-based emulsion requiring constant refrigeration, so he stashed about a pallet of paper canisters under every raised floor on the IBM Poughkeepsie campus. Even though the raised floor acreage has dropped dramatically, some of it may be there to this very day.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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A coworker at HP once worked for Varian. He needed a little bit of fumed silica, maybe a liter (expose silane to oxygen–it’s kind of pretty) and ordered something like 20 pounds. 15 barrels were delivered. Oops.
Quantities from long ago memories…
Thereby taking “You gotta have stuff” into a whole new realm.