Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BESSEMER, Ala. -- Approximately 350 men were idle today after Works Progress Administration employs constructing a storm sower in Roosevelt Park struck in protest of an order that a worker must both load and push his wheelbarrow. Previously each wheelbarrow had a crew of two men--one to load and one to push...
...large heaps of earth which were used as breastworks in the recent seige of the University in the partition of Cambridge battle will be removed when the work of laying the pipes for the increased electrical load is completed. This will not be in the near future, foremen said...
Although most of the book is concerned with the problems met in planning the trans-Atlantic flight, so many of these problems are interesting that the reader only occasionally becomes impatient for the takeoff. The struggle with the elements, the difficulty of removing excess weight from the load--these matters, especially to the layman, are often fascinating. They add to the reader's interest in the actual voyage exactly as the entree adds to the interest in a meal...
While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...
...military training, children begin long marches at the age of 10. and 15-year-olds are expected to march 13∧ miles a day with an eleven-pound load. Result: an abnormal increase in the prevalence of fiat feet, a trait Nazis attribute to non-Aryans. Of youths conscripted in 1936. some 38% were found unfit for military service for this reason...