Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous load, but if you could contrive a crash for it the alleviation of human trouble would be disproportionately vast...
...deep drifts of artificial snow, cold storage poultry, painfully quaint mannerisms and hideously false joviality which load this tender fable, certain genuine bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least...
...they built dams. When one pond filled up they went a little farther upstream and built another. When the whole valley was a series of muddy terraces the beavers went off to another stream. Then the stream broke through the dams one by one and carried a huge load of silt down to the bottom of the valley, forming an alluvial plain...
American Airlines furnished Jones with his gas (twelve times the normal load), oil, food, hotel suite, weather and compass course. Jones furnished American Airlines with good publicity for its southern low altitude route across country. Like the misdirected Douglas Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their...
...good-looking, dark-mustached youn man, Guglielmi has a Latin gaiety and ar outrageous load of self-effacing satire. Last week he was worried lest the gallery lose money on his show, even though Nelson Rockefeller had bought his Persistent Sea for $250. He attributed his love for his hobby, carpentry, to the fragrance of fresh wood, then added sweetly, "or maybe it's the Jesus...