Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope Paul was clearly unprepared for the gale of protest aroused by the encyclical. In a mid-week audience at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence, Paul told an audience of pilgrims something of the personal agony that had accompanied his decision. "Never before," he said, "have we felt the load of our duty. We have studied, read, discussed as much as we could. And we have also prayed a lot. How many times have we had the impression of being almost submerged by this heap of documents? How many times have we realized the inadequacy of our poor person...
Profits are still a long way off, but British Hovercraft is thinking big. Applying the hover principle to industry, the company is currently producing, mostly on an experimental basis, an air-cushion pallet called "Float-a-Load," which can be used to move industrial equipment weighing up to five tons. Its hopes are highest for the $4,000,000 SR.N4, whose potential market over the next ten years could exceed 100 orders if all goes well on its showcase channel crossings...
Seven Minutes to Hack. Harris lined up the target in the luminous cross hairs of his screen, threw two switches that opened the bomb bay and armed the load of 108 bombs. Over the radio, the impersonal voice of a SAC ground controller announced "seven minutes to 'hack' [bomb release point]." The count droned on until at hack, when Harris punched a black button and 30 tons of high explosives cascaded toward the ground more than 30,000 feet below us. There was no shock, no noise, no sight of explosions. Only the impersonal voice of the controller...
...Earlier this year, 50% of a B-52 mission load landed outside a target box and killed 43 friendly South Vietnamese. SAC says it was the only such incident in three years of bombing and claims 100% accuracy inside a target...
...Great Lakes, 71 ocean-going ships were stranded behind strikebound locks, able to load or unload cargoes as far inland as Chicago but unable to return to sea. Another 72 vessels were stalled at the Montreal end of the 2,342-mile waterway, and dozens more clogged smaller ports as far away as Trois Riveres, 80 miles downstream. Canadian railroads stopped wheat shipments to such key outlets as Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior. Toronto shippers laid off 500 longshoremen. Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that...