Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink of water, we had to draw it out of the well; before we ate, we knew that wood had to be chopped for the stove"-but the glory of the Old South for such as the Russells was that poverty...
...Said Harry Truman to reporters after death of Franklin Roosevelt, "I don't know if any of you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on him. But last night the whole weight of the moon and the stars fell...
...made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. At any time he is apt to load his family into a battered station wagon with palette and easel and take to the hills or the canyons of the Big Bend. A prolific painter, Spruce takes only a couple of days to complete a canvas, sells his paintings...
...Asked Congress to appropriate $35 million for a second Washington municipal airport at Burke, Va., 17 miles southwest of the capital, to ease nearby National Airport's traffic load, which has almost doubled since...
...pressurized turboprop plane, whose high speed and economy is ideal for short-haul routes. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., building the F-27 under license, already has 69 firm orders or options from U.S. lines. Flying without subsidy, the F-27 is expected to break even on a load factor of 57%. Better routing, with Civil Aeronautics Board help, could then boost feeder traffic, although many lines will still need subsidies for years to come. Even so, few feeders can raise the cash to buy the Fokker. Of 35 firm F-27 orders, says Bonanza Air Lines' Executive Vice President...