Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cast Off!" Like a stone skipped by a giant hand, the China Clipper last week skittered in long hops across the Pacific. Biggest hop was the 2,400 miles to Honolulu, accomplished in the slow time of 21 hours because of head winds and the heavy load. So full of philatelic mail was the huge plane that her fittings had to be stripped and two crew members left behind to make room for 115,000 letters...
...bland Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley primed to send her on her way and excitable Philippine President Manuel Quezon ready to receive her, the lithe new flying boat China Clipper last week floated in San Francisco Bay. On her first flight to Manila she was to carry a full load of mail, a crew of five, no passengers. Having postponed the trip once for stamp-collectors, Pan American Airways officials vowed that this time the great ship would leave on schedule-at 3:30 p. m. Pacific Time...
When Flaxie & Dan tried and failed again, their owner threw down his hat and gave up hope. Then lanky Russell Sando drove out the Statler Farm's former champions. Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he quieted his prancing giants, then eased their reins and let them lean into their collars. When he clucked them "G-up!" they heaved, set leather straining and tug chains tight. Whipping and rein-slapping are not allowed but were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding...
...final, with the dynamometer (pull-measuring device) set at 3,900 Ib., a new high mark, the equivalent of a rolling load of 130 tons or of nine monster plows cutting 14-inch furrows, the East's Flaxie & Dan on their first trial pulled hard, started the load, got it half way down the 27 1/2-ft. strip they had to cover. Then they suddenly stopped, mistaking an overexcited spectator's shout of GO! GO! for WHOA! WHOA...
...other half of the story is what Columbia did not do during the boom. It did not keep expensive stars under long-term contracts. It did not load itself with theatre chains. It did not get itself heavily in debt. Such unusual wisdom in Hollywood was due chiefly to the frugal instincts of the Cohns. Brother Jack's early experiences filming Westerns in a woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood...