Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long Haul tells the story of Nick and Paul Benay, who picked up loads of freight in Oakland, Calif., hauled them to Los Angeles, fighting sleep, thieving agents, collectors who tried to seize their truck because they were behind in their payments. When they were paid $235 (the agent owed them $400), they bought a load of lemons in Los Angeles, rushed them to Oakland where they sold them, during a temporary shortage that boosted the price, for $520. But, as their luck was looking up, a drunken driver smashed into the truck, nearly killed Paul. Driving alone, hauling pipe...
Meanwhile, Mrs. Clark made the descent safely, but Varney collapsed. Three men lashed him to a pair of skis, tried to drag his body down. As they tugged the bogging load through fresh snow, Varney's arms slowly clinched above his head, stark frozen. In the end, almost frozen themselves, the three men abandoned their clubmate, limped to safety...
...about three "baskets." These "baskets" were neither wicker containers nor scoring points in a game but Congressional slang for different sections of the new tax bill-each basket being designed to> catch a certain type of taxpayer. Most discussed has been the "third basket," for it carried the largest load of a pet Administration theory-the tax on undistributed profits...
...length of 74 ft. The fuselage, 11 ft. wide, seats 33 daytime passengers, has berths for 16, reclining chairs for nine night travelers, accommodation for three flying officers, hostess and Filipino house boy. Its normal speed is around 200 m.p.h., range, with full 9,750-lb. load, about 1,000 miles. For $50,000 more* cabins can be sealed against varying outside air pressures but the Stratoliner, despite its impressive name, goes nowhere near the stratosphere, 32,000 ft. up. Service ceiling...
...United Lutheran Church, whose hospital in Tsingtao, Shantung has been carrying a heavy load during the war, appealed for relief funds in January, but has not increased its annual budget of some $25,000. Since last autumn the Methodist board of foreign missions has collected $61,000 above its budget, about one third of what it needs. Lately missionaries of the University of Nanking (in which Methodists and four other denominations cooperate) made a remarkable 1,000-mile trek to West China Union University in Chengtu, a three-week trip by boat past Hankow and through the Yangtze gorges. This...