Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge stayed up all week. Central London had a monumental jam; traffic was tangled in three-mile snarls in some areas. London Bridge carried most of the added load, and it took 20 minutes for busses and other vehicles to crawl across it during peak traffic hours. Thousands of Londoners walked-and muttered Billingsgate curses on the Billingsgate strike...
Professor Cox, who dealt sharply with the legal aspects of the proposed bills, declared by the both the labor act recently passed by the House of Representatives and the one currently before the Senate would weaken unions and thus hamper collective bargaining, "on which the major load of industrial peace must rest...
Administrative machinery of the Student Council's Salzburg Seminar plan slid into high gear yesterday as the project's executive committee announced a staff of 11 professors and eight graduate assistants that will carry the teaching load this summer at the proposed Seminar on American Civilization...
...Worked fine," said the Ford executive. "More than doubled the load factor...
With more atomic piles at work, such put-it-off-till-tomorrow methods may have to be abandoned. Dr. Morgan, keeping a fairly straight face, mentioned a definitive solution: why not concentrate the deadly isotopes into one big lot, load them into high-powered rockets, and-aiming at no particular friendly planet-shoot them off the earth into space...