Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base coaching box, he cups his big paws and joyously bellows out the count after each pitch. He wiggles and waddles back & forth, lets out an occasional piercing whistle, mimics rival pitchers...
...developed for operating the piles by remote control from behind thick protective shields. Even so, the deadly unknowns escaped. The cooling water was radioactive. It had to be impounded and exhausted of radioactivity before going back to the river. The wind blowing over the chemical plant picked up another load of peril for the stacks gave off a radioactive gas. The City of Pluto was a place of grim possibilities...
...LeMay's great asset was his ability to make men work hard-even in the wretched (by Air Forces standards) living conditions in the Marianas. When he was hard-pressed he borrowed Seabees to help load bombs, and they liked it. Somehow the grim General made hard work attractive. Mechanics learned to make certain small parts whose lack had grounded planes. The General never said much-for him, a nine-word sentence is a monologue -but his men gladly toiled around the clock. The availability record of B-29s (i.e., the daily number ready to fly) rose almost...
...Tiny, hard-won Iwo, for weeks a haven for B-29s in trouble on their way home, was now being used as a filling station on the way north from the Marianas to Japan. Result: B-29s stopping at Iwo to take on fuel stepped up their explosives load to a maximum of ten tons...
...Philippines) for the first time was the four-engined B32, Consolidated Vultee's bid for V.L.R. (Very Long Range) recognition. Under wraps in the Pacific since May, the B-32 is a little smaller than the Superfortress but is a competitor in speed, range and bomb load. The new bomber is also simpler: on the off-chance that the B-29's pressurized cabin and elaborate fire-control system might not work, the Air Forces deliberately instructed the B-32 designers to omit extras, come up with a bomber stripped to absolute essentials. The B-32s in action...