Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson had traveled the 770 miles to Chicago to attend a two-day meeting of U.S. railroad men. Their agenda: how to handle the increasing load on the railroads...
...Addressing a farm gathering in one Provincial election, he jumped on a manure spreader, whooped: "This is the first time I have ever spoken from a Conservative platform." Answered a man in the crowd: "Throw her into high, Mitch. She's got the biggest load on now she'll ever carry...
...Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay. Fifty U.S. sailors, all of them Negroes, are being tried for mutiny, for which the punishment may be death. The 50 are ammunition handlers who, a few weeks after the explosion of two ammunition-laden ships at Port Chicago (327 killed) refused to load a ship...
...North American's PSI Mustang, which probably has the longest tactical range (some 600 miles) of any U.S. fighter, so far as any official announcement has been made, mounts six .50-cal. machine guns, can carry at least a 1,000-lb. bomb load...
...Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, which mounts eight .50-cal. machine guns, can also carry at least a 1,000-lb. load...