Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...
...take some of the load off the pilot, Curtiss-Wright Corporation last week announced a new wrinkle, to be used in its big CW20 transport under construction in its St. Louis factory. When the CW20 pilot is ready to land, he will throw a switch marked "land." A series of bulbs on the instrument board will light, and as he gets his landing gear down, lowers his flaps, cranks back his stabilizer, et al., the lights will go out, one by one. By other switches, he can check his operations for takeoff, or for any other operations. When the instrument...
General Electric Co.'s laboratories in Schenectady last week demonstrated (see cut, p. 23) a tiny magnet, about the size of a pellet of buckshot, holding aloft a five pound flatiron. The magnet weighs about one-sixteenth of an ounce. The maximum ratio of lifted load to magnet weight is 1,500 to i, highest in the annals of engineering. Thus General Electric's mighty mite is the most powerful permanent magnet on record...
...Quoted from Thomas Jefferson: "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ... As the doctrine is that a public debt is a public blessing, so they think a perpetual one is a perpetual blessing, and therefore wish to make it so large that we can never...
...Supt. of Police Edward W. Fallon said that no cases of violence by men identified as strikers had been reported to police. The only arrests in the day were in Melrose, where five men were taken on charges of assaulting a truckman bound from Maine to Boston with a load of milk. The Boston Globe...