Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making it work would be another. Several sources reported last week that one of the secret Yalta agreements included a promise to allow Russia some 50% of all reparations. Russia had been busily practicing what the commission now preached, uprooting whole factories and moving them eastward by the train load. Could the Russian zone, partly stripped, actually be treated as "a single entity" with the British and U.S. areas, where no such confiscation had been planned? Would the Russians want to collect from the other zones as well, or would Moscow consider its bill as paid...
...quick-thinking operator of a coal derrick edged his big machine to the bank, swung the bucket of his crane up to the Hamonic's bow, swung it down to earth again when it had taken on its frantic load. Captain Beaton, scorched out of his pilot house, attempted to climb to a lower deck but fell. He plunged into the water from the portside, climbed back aboard up the crane boom, stayed there till all were...
...this time they could not spread the job evenly over a network of eastern roads. The enormous load had to be carried by the seven thin western lines which finger out from the midwest, snake through the high, twisting passes of the Rockies and drop down from the high sierra to the key ports of the West Coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland...
...farmer's car-of -all-trades, the new jeep can pull a plow, harrow or load of hay; by means of a power take-off at the rear it can run a saw, threshing machine, or drill post holes. Slicked up, with top, side curtains, and comfortable seats, it can carry farmer & family to town. Willys expects to make 20,000 civilian jeeps this year, expects to sell them in the neighborhood...
Baltimore stockyards rang with the impatient bellows of 337 cows, the whinnies of 396 restless mares. A ship stood empty in the harbor, ready to load. And across the water, Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece, Albania and Czechoslovakia (with more than five million farm animals lost in the war) waited hungrily for replacements...