Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...putting up a $27 million missile plant (Lacrosses and Bullpups) that will employ 7,000. Near West Palm Beach, Pratt & Whitney is building a $42 million research and testing plant, has already started to work in part of it to develop new jet engines. And in the missile-laden Cape Canaveral area (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the roster of industrial newcomers reads like the Who's Who of American Industry: Boeing, Chrysler, Convair, Douglas, Fairchild, North American, Northrup, Westinghouse...
Capital Airlines, laden with its full share of financial troubles, flew headlong into a downdraft. In Washington last week, experts for the Civil Aeronautics Board withdrew a recommendation that Capital get a long-range route from the Great Lakes to Florida's rich vacation market, instead advised the CAB that Capital was not equipped to fly the run. CAB's reason: the original recommendation was based on the proposition that Capital would have new planes to fly the route. Since then, Capital's financial position has deteriorated so badly that it had to postpone plane deliveries indefinitely...
...thinking that it was a great, rich country, and a great people. Evil was organized and directed, but the good sprang from the heart and mind of man, and ran like a river between its natural banks. The word 'duty' was slight, but 'conscience' was laden with meaning...
...marked the site of the birth 69 years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...