Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency polio duty in city hospitals at premium pay. With 362 cases in July and 209 in the last week, the city had what Health Commissioner Harry S. Mustard called "a mild epidemic." But he warned that with plenty of hot weather still to come, a heavy polio case load could be expected until well into September...
...cruising speed and altitude each Ghost drinks 120 imperial gallons (144 U.S. gallons) of kerosene per hour. To get her safely across the Atlantic and allow a three-hour safety margin, the Comet will have to carry something like 6,000 gallons of fuel (the DC-6's load: 4,248 gallons). Fully loaded, the Comet will probably carry only 20 passengers on a long flight (the DC-6 can carry...
...dockers refused to unload two ships involved in a Canadian strike. The walkout on British docks persisted and spread. Prime Minister Attlee said the London stoppage was a maneuver in Communist "wrecking tactics." Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross called it "economic and political treason." The government ordered troops to load the ships...
...domestic carriers were not the only ones flexing their muscles. The international airlines, both U.S. and foreign, were enjoying the biggest summer-travel boom in their history. Pan American Airways was making 70 peak-load overseas flights a week, ten more than at this time last year. T.W.A. was crossing the ocean 52 times weekly (v. 44 last year) and its passenger load was up 22½%. Air France had been booked solid since March...
...Heavy Load. Investors liked the idea; they could get their money out at any time at the current value of their shares. Securities salesmen liked it even more; the handsome 7½% commission gave them three to four times the profit they could make by handling individual securities. Other brokers were quick to catch on, and soon M.I.T. had some imitators...