Word: load
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norman, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The construction of a balloon is comparatively simple. It consists of a huge bag some 30 or more feet in diameter, spherical in cut but assuming an egg shaped form with the bigger end at the top; round the gas bag is the load ring from which are suspended a series of cables holding the basket; the basket much resembles a housewife's market basket- only much bigger, some 3% feet high, 3 feet wide and 3% feet long. In the basket are ballast, instruments, warm clothing, food, water, coffee, sterno. The balloonists...
When Mgr. Hayes was motoring up to the Pincian gardens to be snapped by the picture men he was so closely followed by the car containing a load of photographers that an accident occurred. The rear car hit Mgr. Hayes' car, smashing the gasoline tank. This caused a half hour's delay, and gave the photographers ample opportunity...
Several causes for the break are already discernible. The basic cause is that the French have not really balanced their budget and have financed deficit after deficit by issuing more internal government notes and bonds. This load of debt, which it was hoped would soon be lightened by the receipt of German reparations, at length became top heavy. Speculators began to sell francs "short" in anticipation of a decline. The conservative investor, to avoid losses, sent his balances abroad, and a "flight of the franc" ensued...
...meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...
...Army's experimental station at McCook Field, Dayton, will soon test a new bomber built by G. Elias &; Bros. of Buffalo. Equipped with two 700-horse-power motors, the new plane will carry a deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second...