Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satan disguised as a dragon had fallen upon the moon and was determined to devour it entire. The Turks ran indoors, got their rifles, ran out again. As fast as they could load & fire, they shot at the invisible dragon, whose infernal bite mark on the moon was dreadfully visible...
...President felt his head grow thick as an-other troublesome cold caught up with him. Abandoning labor on his message to Congress he went to bed, and Mrs. Roosevelt sent him up milk & toast for supper. C On Thanksgiving, 1925, Roy Olmstead, Seattle policeman, was caught redhanded docking a load of liquor from British Columbia. During Prohibition he had served practically all of Seattle's rum-running "mother boats" with speed boats which brought their cargo to shore on schedule. His fast launches were said to have got their cues from his wife who, as "Aunt Vivian," broadcast bedtime...
Three days later, crammed with a return load of oranges, automobile parts and general merchandise, the caravan headed back East by approximately the same route, this time aiming for Manhattan. Again all went without a hitch, except for an arrest in New Mexico for overloading, a 30-min. delay near Cleveland for a flat tire The caravan shouldered on through blizzards, finally waddled into Manhattan last week in seven days, beating its own schedule by 24 hours, the best railroad freight schedule by 72 hours...
...rules of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. By the rules compiled Dec. 31, 1934, records are awarded to Airplanes. Seaplanes, Amphibions. Balloons. Airships, Gliders, Auto-giros, Helicopters, Airplanes piloted by women, Seaplanes piloted by women. Most of these broad groups are subdivided into classes by size and by pay load. Each class may then achieve such records as maximum speed, speed for certain distances, airline distance, broken line distance, altitude, duration, circuit of the world. At present there are 254 possible records, of which only 123 are established. 40 by the U. S., 38 by France, 28 by Italy, eight...
...road has the most efficient equipment developed. Its steam locomotives are among the world's biggest, its electric locomotives on the 134 miles of electrified line over the hump of the Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio, another model road...