Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flyers discovered why their tail had drooped at the take-off?the stowaway was there. They decided not to throw him overboard. To lighten the load they had dispensed with thermos bottles, victuals and other comforts. They had taken less than their full capacity of gas. Jean Assolant, married only three days to Pauline Parker, pretty Manhattan chorus girl, had refused to take her. But that hulking, selfish boy was with them. His unexpected weight prevented their reaching French soil...
...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...plan calls for a take-off from New York with a small load of gasoline, a first refueling over Boston, a capacity refueling (1,900-gallons) over Nova Scotia, the next near Glasgow, more in Germany, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, etc. etc. The route as planned is said to be only about 13,500 mi. (about 10,500 mi. shorter than the circumference of the earth at the equator). At an average speed of 120 m. p. h., 13,500 mi. would take about 112?...
...from Cape Town. Publisher Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun, gad-abouting over Africa and Europe, was forced down last month on the Italian Riviera. The strip of beach (near Bordighera) was too small for a takeoff. Last week he was still trying to load his ship on a barge to take it somewhere whence he can hop for England...
...shove them upward from inclined planes; hence, the device of the German Dr. Hugo Junkers, which last week's despatches reported successful. He places the plane which is to fly, on the wings of a large three-motored auxiliary plane. The auxiliary leaves the ground with its load, when good flying height is attained, the top ship takes off from the auxiliary, which returns to its field. Last week the U. S. gave Dr. Junkers letters patent for his idea...