Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notwithstanding all the country's automobiles, buses, trucks, airlines, pipelines, waterways, lake and ocean shipping, the freight car remains the basic unit in U. S. transportation. And the number of freight cars loaded weekly by the U. S. railroad system remains a basic business index. When the railroads load less than 500,000 freight cars per week the country is depressed. When they load more than 1,000,000 a boom is in full flower. A few years ago when railroad finance looked its worst, statisticians used to put their feet on their desks and say that there...
...costs so much that the only way to continue making profits is to pay French workers the "higher" wages they 'have won in "cheaper" money; 3) successive French regimes have operated with such enormous deficits in the last few years that .to cheapen the money in which this load of debt is owed is as good an idea in Paris as it has proved to be in Washington, London and Tokyo; 4) although there was still last week a 57% gold cover behind the French franc, whereas the legal requirement was only 35%, successive "flights from the" have reduced...
...send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards the flight there from Germany as child's play. The planes are catapulted so they might take off with a greater load than they could lift from the water...
...Smooth wet spindles combed into the plants, caught the white tufts from open bolls. From the spindles the cotton was mechanically stripped and blown into a collecting bag. Hour after hot hour the spindle-belts droned on like a swarm of bees. Bag after bellying bag poured out its load in a white cascade. Spectators crowded around to finger and scrutinize mechanically picked cotton...
...Conchartee, Okla., the arrival of new editions of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs was in the nature of both an economic and literary event. The train was late; the post office truck stalled under the load; the mail carriers were held up in their deliveries. Chosen from the comprehensive array of goods described and pictured within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail...