Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout the state. Near Marshfield a farmer trying to sell a load of wood was brutally clubbed. A picketer near Madison was shot and killed by a truck driver running a blockade...
When Albert Henry Wiggin sat down, the witness chair held the biggest load of banking ability which it had supported since the days when J. P. Morgan and certain of his partners occupied it. When Mr. Wiggin was a New England boy of 17 he became a bank clerk. When he was 23 he became an assistant bank examiner. When he was 29 he became vice president of a bank in Boston. In 1904 at 36 he joined Manhattan's Chase National as vice president. Seven years later he became its president. At that time...
...During recent months we have seen the city sink lower under an increasing load of stupidity and incompetence and when an arrogant leadership asked the citizens of this city to put its stamp of approval on such a record, resentment became widespread and deepseated. . . . To whom could they turn? To the candidate named by the Fusion group? His record is the answer to that question. No one can have any confidence in him because his whole record has been a record of opportunism, instability and explosiveness unparalleled in politics...
...millimetres of mercury per minute, or the ability to lift that much mercury by the force of the heart action. If the figure runs up to 45,000 or 50,000, as is possible, it demonstrates to the physician that the heart has enlarged considerably to carry this load, and that an operation will be risky...
Extra alert were the Coast Guard outside of New York Harbor one night last week. They had been tipped off that a big load of Canadian liquor was to be smuggled in. When a passing steamer signalled that she was the Texas Ranger, inbound from Galveston, they did not inquire further. They knew the Texas Ranger was about due, and coastwise vessels of U. S. registry do not have to touch at Quarantine...