Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the mountains of Kentucky lie the West Indies, yet when S. S. Belgen-land steams south Feb. 25 with a load of tourists, the mountains will benefit more than the islands. Last week Manhattan debutantes-from such families as Zabriskie, Auchincloss, Havemeyer...
...wrong from the wronger, perhaps we should say; I'll tell you, dear friends, all that happened that day. The cause for debate was what words should be used In their themes every week by the youth-much abused- Of the nation, who labor beneath a great load, For they're forced to write English too much a la mode. And what shall we do?" those great-hearted souls cried To help these poor students; it's so hard they've tried! "If we don't fix on something, they surely won't pass...
Until the incident of the burst valve, chief topic of conversation on the Conte di Savoid was her $1,000,000 worth of Sperry gyroscopes, installed to keep the ship from rolling. To spite a lifeboat load of admirals, engineers, and college technicians who crossed on the Conte di Savoia to observe their gyro-stabilizers' action, seas remained resolutely calm, and the gyros had no fair test. One day, to show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia...
Only through consignments will be accepted. To save time checking cargo, the load compartment will be sealed at the takeoff, remain sealed during fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita (where pilots change), Albuquerque, Seligman, Ariz, Among the pilots is famed Clyde Pangborn (round-the-World, 1931). Unbound by mail contracts or by required intermediate stops, the company may vary the planes' routes at will to escape bad weather, also to thwart possible attempts at robbery...
...practically unknown. In Japan the power companies often become involved in bitter price wars in selling to local distributing concerns or to big industrial users. Last winter the Big Five signed a peace pact, agreeing to respect one another's customers, to pool power at times of peak load or droughts, to refrain from building new plants without permission of the other units...