Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loaded his arms with raisins, peanuts, cigarets, candy, sugar and the other stores left over from our lunch. . . . His eyes glistened with pleasure. He stepped back, barely able to retain a grip on his spear, knapsack, and load of rations, but still in possession of his dignity. "American, him good people!" he said, with emphasis, with which high compliment he left us. It was quite the nicest compliment we could possibly have been vouchsafed...
...such short hauls each B-29 could carry perhaps ten tons of bombs, an unheard-of load for any bomber in the vast Pacific theater. All the B-29s returned, but three P-47s of the escort -the first the Superfortresses ever had-were lost to heavy antiaircraft fire at the target: Rangoon's railway yards...
News of the "guilty" verdict-in the first such mutiny trial in U.S. Navy history-brought charges from Negroes that Negro sailors were victims of discrimination and a demand for an investigation of circumstances leading up to the case. The 50 had refused and persisted in refusing to load ammunition after an explosion of two munition ships had killed 327 persons at nearby Port Chicago, where the 50 had formerly been based. Navy officers sternly insisted that such conduct could not be tolerated in wartime, no matter what the excuse...
...Navy had already tried 207 other Negro sailormen and found them guilty of disobeying orders on the same rebellious occasion. Unlike the 50, the 207 had not persisted in their refusal to load explosives. Punishments (also unannounced) were undoubtedly lighter...
...Akron Beacon-Journal. But until his father died in 1933, no one in Akron noticed much about Cornell-trained Jack Knight except that he was a pleasant fellow with a flair for good clothes and winning at golf. His father's death left the Beacon-Journal with a load of depression debt. Akron gossiped: "This will be the end of the Beacon; Jack doesn't know how to settle down and work...