Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skyways has had but one accident. In Detroit a plane caught fire taking off, burned with a furniture load after an emergency landing...
...walls. The Islands' top dressmaker, Ramon Valera, turned out 24 gowns in two weeks (with material at $50 a yard), then collapsed from overwork. The first trickle of civilian goods had arrived from the U.S., tumbling black market prices 50%. And the Islands had shipped their first large load of hemp...
...draft hooked other educators, J. B. Stokes gaffed them and landed them on the Academy staff. Heads of departments remained, as always, regular Navy officers. But reserves and civilians took over the heaviest teaching load. The effect was refreshing. The difficulty the Academy now faces is keeping them on its staff. Many of them will go back to civilian colleges at the first chance...
...coming out of service to make a big difference. A stepped-up Navy R.O.T.C. program (having taken the place of ¥12) was another talent source. And now that teen-age draft requirements, had been eased (see EDUCATION), even the fuzzy-cheeked freshmen who carried last year's load looked bigger & better...
...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...