Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much food should a lifeboat load, should her mother-boat sink at sea? Last week three mariners of Cornwall and a wireless operator set out to discover, taking with them in the 40-ft., 15 h.p. Elisabeth and Blanche, a modified lifeboat, only hardtack, chocolate, condensed milk, tinned stuffs and vegetable extracts to eat on a 38,000 mi. cruise around the world. They will stop at 50 points and report their condition, which, if ever it becomes ominous, will certainly do so on the 4,600-mi. stretch between Tasmania and Durban. Despatches did not state whether...
Boston & Maine trains, moseying up the Hoosac Valley to Williamstown, Mass., carried a curious freight this week. In the winter their usual load is milk cans and traveling men; in the spring and autumn milk cans and college boys; in the summer milk cans. But this week big, all-steel specials swept up that dreaming valley, bearing to Williamstown financiers, lawyers, editors, college presidents, diplomats, army and navy officers, savants from all parts of the world, assembling at the invitation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, for the annual session of the Institute of Politics...
Engineer Ethelbert Favary pointed out the decrease in road destruction that is obtained by distributing a given weight over six surfaces instead of four. To save their roads, many states have enacted laws limiting the weight of trucks and the weight of their loads per square inch of tire. Under the California law, 180 5.5-ton four-wheelers would be required legally to carry a load of merchandise that 100 7-ton six-wheelers could handle. The 100 six-wheelers, weighing many tons less than the 180 four-wheelers, would pound up the roads less. They would burn about...
...Presidential mail bag?a great leathern pouch holding two bushels of mail, that has served for nearly 25 years and went to President Taft at Beverly and President Wilson at Shadow Lawn?arrived with its first load of documents...
...days later. Nurmi eluded a group of giggling women who desired to osculate his drawn cheek, waved farewell to a swarming pier-load of yelling Finnish-Americans, had his last pictures taken by U. S. cameramen, departed for Finland. On the same day, in answer to those scandal mongers who have averred that he padded his expense account, a list of his expenditures was published. He, who had been offered a professional contract of $3,000 a week, $60,000 by advertisers who wanted his endorsement, lived for six months...