Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soup is perfect, but the editorial is faulty. You describe the farmers, "swinging their sweaty horses in an arc." Time was that such a thing was true, but Jersey farmers, growing the wonderful "J.T.D." tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift...
Johnny Kolesar died instantly, his back riddled with a load of No. 4 shot. Joe Klementovich was taken to a hospital, apparently dying. He was ten years old. Helen Klementovich's wounds were less dangerous. Police soon seized Farmer Craig Hoffman, identified by Anna Kolesar as "the man in brown pants." He denied shooting the children. In his house was found a ten-gauge shot-gun.* Police, fearing a lynching, dispersed muttering crowds, locked up Farmer Craig, charged him with murder, assault with intent to kill, atrocious assault and battery...
...puzzled spectator might have asked, "Are Victrolas made out of tomatoes?" Not so the laboratory workers?the tomato procession comes every year and they pay no attention. Each farmer in the crowded thoroughfare, swings his sweating horses in an arc, drives his fruity load to the receiving platform of the Campbell Soup Co. across the way from the Victor plant...
...handled by U. S. Class 1 railroads in May. It means that U. S. freight trains did a job equivalent to carrying a one-ton weight some 42 billion miles. It was the best May mark in rail-road history. In May 1929 the average freight train carried a load of 26.6 tons, moved this load 32.9 miles per day, at the record-breaking speed of 13.3 m.p.h...
Returning last week from the Orient with its usual July load of tourists, plantation owners, white scientists, dark Oriental traders, the S. S. Tenyo Maru steamed through the Golden Gate. Watching the San Francisco skyline was a young Chinese woman, dressed in the smartest U. S. style?Mrs. Sui'e Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese Vice Consul at San Francisco. She was returning from a visit to her homeland. When the liner had docked she, a lady of some importance, requested courtesy-of-the-port, that her baggage might be passed and delivered at once. The Customs men demurred...