Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds of rotten tomatoes some day instead of this load...
...short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes if it has to refuel). Southwest has trimmed the time by such tricks as keeping one engine running, dropping open a door which also serves as a staircase...
...three days, Boston and New York sportswriters have been flopping by the basket-load from the sour apple tree where they hung and grimaced at Harvard football during its years of mediocrity. Reporters and columnists can't seem to spout their stream of adjectives Valpeywards fast enough, a stream that has heretofore saved solely for blessing B. C. and Company...
Vern Miller, also of the Globe, heaped another load of the weed of praise on the Valpey system, calling the upset a "staggering and glittering offensive victory . . . certainly the most spectacular Harvard decision over a major opponent in a decade . . . one of hope for Collegiate football's future in New England...
...American offered special family rates on the first three "off-peak" days of every week. Last week 744 families (the father pays full fare, wife & children only half) flew in American planes out of New York alone. American figures that the "family package" has boosted its DC-6 load-factor from...