Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some pieces of freight are eight feet by four feet, weigh 1,800 Ib. For these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip...
...York Central closed in San Francisco $1.13 above its New York final sale. Witnessing this, many a Wall Street "market letter" went out that night predicting a thumping bull market in Manhattan next morning. Instead, to the confusion of prophets, railroad stocks and most others fell like a load of corncobs dumped from a hopper car. In heavy trading for a half-day (1,570,000 shares), the ticker lagged four minutes behind and order clerks went hoarse as prices dropped as much as ten points. U. S. Steel thudded to a new low of $52.50, New York Central...
...quickly as Mr. Ponzi's schemes of a decade or so ago. The Yardling, more fortunate than many others, managed to obtain the arrest of a well known professional pickpocket, who was making the most of the opportunity afforded by the crush around the goals to lighten the load in students' pockets...
...Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens was especially proud last week of the work done in Spain by the Institute's nervy emissary, Margaret Palmer, who got many of her contemporary paintings out of Madrid in an army truck provided by the Loyalist Government to take a load of Goyas to Valencia. All 407 paintings were in place by the last week in September, when the four judges, each armed with 15 Dennison stickers the first day and seven the second, strolled through the galleries, licking, sticking, narrowing down the field for the final choices...
...pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each...