Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight past Seattle and Portland shipping men had loaded and unloaded a handful of ships at a couple of docks under the menacing eyes of resentful strikers. In their ports close to 75 ocean ships lay helpless. At Los Angeles' well-defended port, shippers were masters of the situation and kept cargoes moving about as usual. But in San Francisco hardly a vessel could load or unload. Scores of freighters had dumped their cargoes on the docks and sailed away in water ballast. Out in the Bay 89 deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted...
Prime object of the Army's Alaskan flight is to "determine whether a heavy load of bombs can be carried successfully to a distant military objective." The Navy's prime object: to teach Navy flyers "to operate in any waters, under any circumstances." With Secretary of Commerce Roper in Alaska making a survey of commercial air possibilities there, three U. S. Government departments were thus converging last week on a LT. S. territory which most strategists believe would figure prominently in any Pacific...
Express forces in college towns have a unique problem in the peak load occurring in June and September. The Railway Express Agency, attacks the problem with the wisdom of experience. The arrangement this year with dormitory representatives assures a smooth and unruffled handling of student baggage...
...Yale, if the Varsity is booming then at the end of its battle with the Hanoverites, some one of those Elis is just as likely as not to spoil a perfectly good ball game by knocking out a home run in the last of the ninth with the bases loaded. People are always doing ridiculous things like that in Yale games. Rising to the crisis, you know. Then there's the additional problem of an acute pitcher's shortage. Loughlin will take care of one of the encounters and maybe pitch the next day also, up here in Cambridge...
...company into receivership, listing himself as a $486,000 creditor. The court granted a stay. Mr. Browning moved up to the board chairmanship, put Vice President Edward C. Koempel in as president. But business did not improve and President Koempel was unable to work off his load of debts. With insufficient capital, with merchandise, rent and realty liabilities of approximately $500,000, Browning, King was last week turned over to Irving Trust Co., Federal receiver for the southern district of New York (TIME, April...