Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft from Canada and Europe, where pests and diseases are rarer than in the plague-laden Orient, are merely inspected...
Some forehanded people buy Christmas gifts in August, but the market for Christmas trees never opens until after Thanksgiving. Last week long flatcars laden with evergreens and snow began to roll into New York and Chicago, focal points of the Christmas tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25, at least 400 carloads will be sold in New York, 250 in Chicago. Hundreds of carloads will be sold off the sidings in other cities, bringing U. S. tree dealers a total business of perhaps $10,000,000. Of the profit there can be no certainty. A carload of Christmas...
...where four years ago he received the congratulations of Al Smith and mobs of supporters, Franklin Roosevelt spent election evening with family and friends at Hyde Park. In the smoking room were installed teletype machines which chattered out bulletins of the election. In the library a long table was laden with sandwiches, pie, doughnuts, coffee, pitchers of new cider pressed that day. In the dining room the table was covered with charts and tables showing the trend of the voting. From room to room wandered intimates of the Roosevelt family: his former law partner, Basil O'Connor; his preacher...
...TIME, April 22, 1935). Last week, guzzling Coca-Cola by the barrel in a quivering, dust-laden haze, they witnessed the first public demonstration of the Rust picker...
...months of the year Churchill is icebound, snow-laden. Sole reason for making it a port was to reduce Western Canadian wheat-growers' freight rates to Europe. Churchill, at latitude 59°, is no farther from Liverpool than are Montreal and New York, both of which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction...