Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional photographer and restorer of paintings) locked the doors of the room where the pictures were hung, imprisoning the artist's raincoat and lunch. Munnings retired, red-faced, returned presently with a motor lorry, demanded his own 15 can vases. Onto the lorry he was allowed to load them and away he rumbled...
...cost Imperial many a costly survey flight, costlier technical trials & errors. The chief problem had been to provide for profitable payloads. Since Imperial's Empire flying boats could not lift half the Clippers' payload from the water, they had resorted to getting as much of a load as possible in the air, then gassing up for the long ocean flight...
Thirty-six hours from starting point (twelve hours slower than the Clippers) the Caribou, after lighting to deliver part of her 1,000-lb. mail load in Botwood, Newfoundland and Montreal, glided into Port Washington, L. I. If her speed and payload had lagged behind the Clippers', Britain could console herself that no nation could dispute her No. 2 rank in the North Atlantic. Air France, which also has a treaty right to land transatlantic mail and passengers in the U. S., is still in the survey stage. When Imperial shakes down, the Caribou and her sistership Cabot will...
...full load it will operate on one gallon of fuel per hour, is designed to replace one team of horses, will plow, disk harrow, cultivate, plant, haul or act as a small power plant...
...sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest Governor of 1939 was California...