Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain or shine. I never heard of any of our immediate outfit suffering any bodily ills from a bomb and Nancy, in particular, was a well-curried town. Metz was only 20 miles away and Nancy caught it both coming and going, the bombers dropping a part of their load on the way out and dumping the remainder on their way back. They did considerable property damage and killed a few civilians, but, aside from keeping the Frenchmen running from bed to dugout every time the siren sounded, their effects were negligible...
...coast with torpedo-shaped, mine-cutting paravanes hung from every grey prow and all hands at battle stations. In the preceding preparatory weeks the West Coast had thrilled to the report that, although not a shot was to be fired, the Fleet had taken aboard almost its wartime ammunition load. Thus began Fleet Problem XVI, grandest Naval maneuver in U.S. history. whose scene and scope agitated the nation as none of its annual predecessors ever had before...
Beaten by ballots, Hearst's Neylan, a tenacious, fighting Irishman, was barely home in San Francisco from the convention last year when he started to load his guns for a return battle in 1935. In June he broadcast a voluminous letter to all AP members inviting them to help him force the AP management to rid itself of Wirephoto. Alternatives: drop it entirely or turn it back to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to be operated by the latter for all the U. S. Press, with losses guaranteed by the four existing big picture agencies (AP, International, Acme, Wide World...
...slugging his best friend to death. The fight that follows sends Joe Radek to the hospital. Warned by his Anna, who comes back to him just in time, that the miners are about to go back to work on unfavorable terms, Joe goes down into the mine with a load of explosives. From the bottom of the shaft he telephones up that unless the miners' demands are met, he will destroy the mine. The company's officials take him at his word. When Black Fury opened in Manhattan last week, it was advertised by its producers and hailed...
...Baltimore, Glenn Luther Martin's gigantic new Clipper No. 7, laid up for three months because of ice conditions in Chesapeake Bay, got off on a test flight with the biggest load (51,000 lb.) ever carried by a U. S.-built aircraft...