Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...
...pleasant surprise. President Ralph S. Damon reported a profit of $3,931,910 before taxes for the first nine months of 1949, partly owing to the success of T.W.A.'s low-fare coach flights from New York to Chicago, and Kansas City to Los Angeles. With an average load of 80.5% of capacity, the coaches made up much of the revenue lost last winter when short-haul DC-35 sometimes carried only two or three passengers a trip. Explained Damon: "You can't fly an airplane with that light a load factor and not lose your shirt...
With a quick squiggle of his pen, President Truman last week signed a law calculated to please both U.S. tourists and the foreign merchants who load them down with perfumes, silks, tweeds, genuine shrunken heads, and other souvenirs. From now on, Americans who go abroad on trips of twelve days or longer can bring in $500 in goods duty free (the old limit was $400). The exemption on shorter trips goes up from...
...Ilyushin job, first seen by Western observers in August 1947, is a four-jet bomber with a probable range of 1,000 to 1,500 miles and bomb load of 5,000 Ibs. Some experts believe that the plane is too light to pick up Russia's Abomb, but another four-jet bomber, the German-designed JU-287 (bomb load nearly 9,000 Ibs.) is said by Jane's to be in "limited production" at Kuibyshev...
Second, a permanent solution must be found. The difference between the central kitchen's food and the food from a few independent kitchens indicates that reducing the load on the central kitchen may be one of the answers. This is in accordance with Seiler's main idea of bringing the cooking closer to the serving. Naturally, this would be costly, but there is no reason why such a proposal should not be considered as a long range plan...