Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such trains promise great economies in air transportation. The greater the load which a power plant can pull the cheaper the charges for passengers or freight, and the better the profits for the entrepreneurs. The chief difficulty at present seems to be the initial motive power to start the train from the ground. Once in the air the motor pull for a train is not much greater than for a single plane. Railroaders and motor truckers have the same problem on an easier scale. A solution for the air seems to be multi-motored planes with all engines working...
...Passed a bill to regulate the load line on vessels of 250 or more tons in U. S. ports...
...judge by New Hampshire statistics which show a 20 percent increase in registration with a 22 percent decrease in fatalities, the plan under consideration takes care of the purpose of the existing law. In addition, the repeal of the present regulation will lift a heavy load from the shoulders of the careful small-car driver. At present the safe driver bears an insurance burden saddled upon him by the carelessness of others. Finally, by removing insurance from the realm of law, the state will be saved those bickerings between insurance men and politicians it recently experienced. In the face...
...With the first sense of uneasiness that her dead had brought to her she shifted her load so that it would no longer gaze downward and started forward again. But with an almost animate persistence the body moved with each stride, and gradually the round, blank silhouette again eclipsed the miniature skies through which she waded. Now her anger rose, and she splashed heavily through the water, shattering and dispersing its reflections. . . . The air about her broke into a shrill ominous whine, and a black cloud of mosquitoes enveloped her, settling like dust on head, shoulders, and legs. Involuntarily...
Yesterday afternoon a large truck carrying a machine that looked like a submarine drove up Longwood Avenue to the Harvard Medical School. After considerable maneuvering, the truck backed into the grounds of the School of Public Health and slid its load down an incline into a specially constructed building...