Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union; as monthly salaried men, they may be employed independently of the ship clerks' hiring hall. C. I. O.'s West Coast Director Harry Bridges, scenting a sly device to undermine his forces and promote an "independent" association of American-Hawaiian employes, forbade his longshoremen to load the company's ships. San Francisco waterfront employers in retaliation closed the port, contending that issues beyond the pay status of ten clerks were involved. While both sides fussed over the terms by which this tempest in a pay envelope might be arbitrated, A. F. of L.'s seamen...
...cheerful West Pointer who shouldered the load of grief which Harry Hopkins put down just in time, Administrator Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington of WPA, last week went up to the Capitol armed with a 39-page statement and a heart full of spunk. The subcommittee charged with producing a Relief bill for 1940. headed by Virginia's urbane Representative Woodrum, had heard scores of witnesses. Now at last it was the turn of "Pink" Harrington, the one man most vitally affected by changes the bill they had already drafted would make in his regime...
Confiscated by Manhattan agents of the Food and Drug Administration this week was a load of 30,000 aluminum-cased lipsticks, sent to the U. S. by the swank Parisian parfumerie, Guerlain, Inc. They charged: for coloring, the lipsticks contained cadmium and selenium, poisonous chemicals banned in U. S. cosmetics...
...gone a-humming. Soon after he moved into the plant Martin told friends he had a ship coming off the drawing boards that would revolutionize military aviation. It did. The ship was the Martin B10, a two-motored monoplane. With a range of 1,800 miles and a bomb load of 2,400 pounds, it could pull away from any pursuit ship then in the air at a top speed of 250 miles an hour. The U. S. Army took 151 of them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being...
...calculations. Consolidated's new 25-ton Model 31 had a high speed of 275 m.p.h. (75 miles faster than Boeing's four-motored 314 clipper), handled nicely in the air. Gasoline consumption showed that she had a range of 10,000 miles with a light passenger load, that she could lug 28 passengers in Pullman accommodations across the Atlantic at a speed unprecedented for commercial flying boats...