Word: loader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Face. Tossy's usual job is boring the coal to receive dynamite charges. Some days he works as a loader, heaving coal with a pan shovel (like an oversized soup spoon) onto a shaker conveyor. By working two overtime shifts, he grosses about $80 a week, but income tax, union dues and other check-offs leave him only $55 take-home...
...well evaporated. Well covered by photographers, he dashed off autographs for a swarm, of half-clad Sapulpan moppets, who descended on the home of Mrs. Dewey's parents (see cut). Polishing up his grass-roots tactics, he stopped to admire a local farmer's improvised hay bale loader, commented knowingly that it was just what he needed on his own Pawling, N.Y. farm. By the time the Deweys moved on to Kansas City, Tom Dewey was in high gear...
...bazooka was borrowed and Charlie noticed that the sight was broken. A runner started back to battalion headquarters for a new sight, but the attack could not wait. With two scouts on his flanks to protect him, Charlie and his bazooka loader moved forward, the men of A Company trailing cautiously behind...
...slickers who follow the trade have developed a lingo all their own. One who points the game is a bird dog. The prospect is a sucker or a mooch. An advance man who attracts the mooch is a bell cow. The man who makes the sale is a loader. The smoothie who takes the sucker a second time is the reloader. Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone. An argument for a difficult prospect is the Russian Injection...
...armament, gave M3 tremendous fire power. Said Colonel Williams: "We weren't trying for top firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell...