Word: loaders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 100,000 wild Tibetan nomads, known as the Goloks, who fight with swords and old muzzle-loader muskets, have declared war on the Chinese Reds in Tibet...
...Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when he got the Champawat tiger, which had eaten 436 people. He repeatedly voiced his admiration for the cats he hunted...
...moonlight night in 1951, Charley Gilliland was staring down a long ravine covered by his BAR when the shadows erupted in a mad, whistle-blowing, screaming Chinese attack. Rifle fire raked his position; shells crashed in around him. Charley Gilliland stood firm, aiming, firing, aiming, firing. His ammunition loader was killed, but still he held the position. Two Chinese got behind Gilliland. He left his foxhole, killed them both with a pistol. But he was shot in the back of his head himself. The order came for the company to retreat. Gilliland asked permission to stay so that he could...
...Lodover, an ingenious little tractor loader designed for work in close quarters, such as in mines. It can swing a load of dirt overhead from front to back...
Orderly Racketeering. Such order is inevitably made for disciplined racketeering. One stevedoring superintendent testified that the Grace Line paid off Timmy O'Mara, a Sing Sing alumnus (burglary) and boss loader on the North River, by carrying him on the payroll under a phony name. O'Mara never did a lick of work, but he netted $24,130 in five years. Portly, white-haired Jones Devlin, the general manager of the powerful U.S. Lines (S.S. United States, America), related with bored weariness how the U.S. Lines abandoned one of its midtown piers rather than try to cope with...