Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree's bark, gather the soft flowing latex, load it into tank cars. This type of worker has no pride in his job, nor does he become devoted to the boss directly over him. Yet last week perhaps a few of the natives working on some 46,000 acres of Goodyear Rubber Plantation Co.'s Sumatran rubber land...
...first place," began the "Roxy" lament, "I want to tell you that at the beginning I was betrayed. My partner sold me out and left me to carry this awful load. I have received scurrilous letters from you stockholders, and some of the accusations which have been made against me have caused me to cry like a baby. After I was betrayed I stuck only because I felt that most of you people had bought stock because it was my project. I got nothing out of it. I have lost a larger personal fortune in sticking with you. I have...
Jaunty, cocksure, well-muffled and goggled, Carey Pridham, 29, married, strode over to his Pitcairn Super-Mailwing at Newark, N. J. airport an early morning last week. He opened the mail compartment, chucked in his load of mail, and climbed into the pilot's seat. The Wright Whirlwind, nicely warmed up, was flipping the prop over slowly. The ship trembled in its wheel chocks. He opened up the motor to recheck the steady drone of power that was to carry him to Boston. Mechanically everything was fine. The ship had had its regular inspection the night before. A perfect...
Flimsy, frail contraptions that will soar in little wind, will take a man size load off the ground with no power: those were the gliders. Outstanding were the German craft introduced by the American Motorless Aviation Corp...
...both possible and probable that sea currents during the next fortnight would crack a passageway through the pack at about the 180th degree of longitude. The two Byrd ships could then get through, load personnel and goods, and scurry back before the pack reformed...