Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cautioned one student writer not to slip into a grey flannel suit and measure out his life in installment plans. "Do you want a piece of tin from Detroit and a $30,000 pile of bricks in the suburbs?" he demanded. "If you do, you should get a load on every night. Isn't that a hell of a goal?" Television and the movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with writing." For a young writer, Faulkner kept saying, the only thing that matters...
...recently suggested that "an appreciable proportion" of Europe's power needs could be met by better integration of hydroelectric and other conventional power sources. Europe today abounds in such schemes, including one for an interchange of electricity between Britain and France by submarine cable (Britain's peak load occurs at 8 a.m., France's at noon). Even if all these schemes were exploited to the fullest, warned the three experts, the six European nations would have to double their fuel imports within ten years, treble them within...
Early last week the Kern Hills, flying the U.S. flag, dropped anchor off Elath at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and began to pump off its load of 16,500 tons of oil from Iran. Its arrival was almost unremarked. The U.N. troops still occupy the Egyptian side of the narrows, so Egypt could not shoot off its guns. No guns barked from the Saudi Arabian shores either, though Saudi Arabia had threatened to bar the Aqaba Gulf to unwanted ships. Israel, which had celebrated the Kern Hills' first voyage with crowing triumph, this time censored news...
...much as their requirements for getting it. In no field need specific achievement be demonstrated afterward, and, as Hanson says, "the departments should be free to grant it whenever they feel working at a three-course rate would be more advantageous to the student than working under the normal load...
...other states that want federal aid, the picture is not nearly so black. Arkansas' 423 districts have been spending a total of $6,000,000 a year on construction, but they will have to up the ante to $78 million to take care of 1960's student load. On the other hand, overcrowding and the necessity for double shifts are not yet serious problems, and the various districts have still not used up their bonding capacity...