Word: loader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the dining hall and kitchen workers have already been granted bargaining power, the addition of a rival force would contribute towards a "distasteful setup," the labor loader held...
From that point money is spent with great rapidity by hosts and guests on dogs (which cost up to $40 apiece to rent), dozens of beaters ($2 each a day), a loader for each gun ($2.50 a day), shells, servants, tips, food. To bring down one grouse costs between $5 and $10. This year's Glorious Twelfth, however, dawned unpromisingly with rentals expected to total only about $1,500,000, as compared to the $7,500,000 of a peak year like 1929. That indicated that Scotsmen would be shooting a great many of their own birds this year...
...motcur canon had other drawbacks. Being a single-loader, it was hard to handle a Spad, keep a weather eye around and keep the canon fed. The fuses were supersensitive, for balloon work, likely to explode if poked hastily into the gun in the excitement of a brawl. If the pilot was not to miss with his single shell, he had to climb practically aboard the enemy plane before firing. If the Spanish Loyalists insist on World War ordnance, they might be better pleased with the 11 mm. Vickers-AIaxim machine gun, which heaved incendiary slugs of impressive size...
...theory that nothing is so striking as evidence turned against the testifier, the two editors have complied a volume of 135 pages of quotations from Nazi publications and speeches. Hitler's own book, "Mein Kampi", has been sliced up into endless short paragraphs. These, which contain some of The Loader's most warlike statements, have been placed side by side with excerpts from Hitler's Peace Speech of October 14, 1933. Now since the latter was delivered in an effort to allay the fears of Europe that was aroused by Germany's announced intention to rearm, inconsistencies between the autobiography...