Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have to carry more of the party load...
...vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over to the rummage shop with a load of Mrs. McCormick's lesser belongings. The etchings went fast. The price rose from $2 to $3.50, and soon after reporters and cameramen had publicized them, the last had been snapped up at $5. From the office of the impoverished firm of Krenn & Dato a secretary telephoned hastily...
...situation, even rejected new mail subscriptions, with two exceptions. From Denver, Publisher Fred G. Bonfiis shipped bundles of his noisy Post into Butte. From Seattle came supplies of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. A Butte Post office boy, en route from the post office with the day's load of "exchanges," was waylaid by news-starved passersby who offered him 50? a copy. He was incorruptible...
Before crossing the mountains of Arizona on her recent return from the Pacific Coast, U. S. S. Akron released two airplanes from her belly, cut 6,000 lb. from her load (TIME, June 27). Last week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land...
Bankers for the big Insull operating properties rubbed their hands in satisfaction last week. The $65,000,000 load of short-term debt left by Samuel Insull had been lifted from the necks of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas, Light & Coke, Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Commonwealth and Peoples long-term issues had been gobbled up by investors (TIME, Aug. 15); Commonwealth 5½'s had been quickly bid up 5 points above their issue price. A $20,000,000 Public Service issue was marketed early this week. With independent accountants the bankers had been over the books...