Word: loadings
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...code number given only to the driver and the driver's wife and/or dispatcher. When there is a change in shipping plans or an emergency, the wife or dispatcher can call and have Douglas broadcast a message such as "Driver 508, please call in. You have the wrong load." Recently, for example, one driver who had been misdirected from Jacksonville to Houston was told to turn around and go to Baltimore instead. Douglas also broadcasts warnings, mostly phoned in by truckers, about collisions, closed highways, bad road conditions, and speed traps (like the one that long flourished, ironically...
That was the official American account of the damage inflicted after a B-52 Stratofortress last week mistakenly emptied its 20-ton load on Neak Luong, 38 miles southeast of Phnom-Penh. But when reporters later visited Neak Luong, a sleepy town of 5,000, they wondered whether they and Colonel Opfer were talking about the same place. Instead of "minimal" damage, as Opfer had described it, they found horrifying devastation-enough to make it the worst bombing error of the long Indochina war. At least 137 Cambodians were killed and 268 wounded. A mile-long string of more than...
Overwhelmed by the tense, frenetic atmosphere and enormous work load in the hospital emergency room, many doctors view duty in what they call the "pit" as a form of cruel and unusual punishment; others regard it as a purgatory through which they must pass on the way to a more relaxed form of practice. But Dr. Gaius Clark, 40, of Lansing, Mich., loves every minute of it. "It is an exciting type of medicine," he says of his full-time work in the emergency room at Lansing's St. Lawrence Hospital. "You are under a great deal of stress...
Crooks said that the newly constructed Science Center has helped take up the classroom load and discounted the trouble the construction causes...
...work on Thursday, then finally agreed Thursday night to check into the hospital. Tkach (pronounced tuh-kosh) said that the President would spend from seven to ten days there. He was, said Tkach, "moderately sick." Nixon was given an antibiotic and an analgesic, and cut down his work load to one-quarter of its normal amount. With his pneumonia, he was running a temperature (between 101° and 102°), and his breathing was slightly quicker than usual...