Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, A.P. Sloan is probably the most functional, frill-less piece of human machinery in the U.S. industry hierarchy. He is also close to being its top industrial statesman. Once an associate likened him to a bearing, "self-lubricating, smooth, eliminates friction and carries the load...
...people should be given ample opportunity to rest and recuperate. . . . The heavy load on the shoulders of the farmers and workers should be reduced at once...
Even among Balkan politicians, who are much sought after by direct-actionists, Dr. Georgi Dimitroff, 43-year-old ex-Secretary General of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party, seems to bear a charmed life. Four years ago he escaped German arrest by leaving his country in a load of oranges shipped out by British diplomats. Four months ago he escaped Russian arrest, this time by falling inside the opened door of the U.S. political representative in Sofia, Maynard B. Barnes (TIME, June 11). Last week, still in the reassuring company of Mr. Barnes, Dimitroff and his wife emplaned from the capital, with...
...nothing to the Japanese. Under the 675-year dictatorship of the shoguns (Japan's military overlords), emperors were empty figureheads often cast aside, banished or assassinated at the shoguns' whim. "From the remote island to which he had been relegated, one managed to escape, hidden under a load of fish. Others had to sell autographs for a livelihood. The Emperor Tsuchi II lay unburied for six weeks until his son borrowed the money from Buddhist priests to pay for the funeral expenses...
...American Airways' Dixie Clipper took off with a full load of 45 passengers (among them was Boston's millionaire scientist, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 84, on his 44th Atlantic crossing, his first by air). During the week three of American Export Airlines' Flying Aces, Pan American's Atlantic Clipper and American Clipper zoomed for Europe with all passenger space filled...