Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which 450 planes dropped 3,200 tons of incendiaries. The 21st Bomber Command said 6.9 sq.mi. of the great seaport city was burned out; the Japs said 60,000 homes were destroyed. Next on the B-29s' list was industrial Kobe, which caught another 3,000-ton load of U.S. fire bombs...
...Blown along by the prevailing easterly wind at some 125 m.p.h., the balloons reach the U.S. in an estimated 80 to 120 hours. When the last sandbag has dropped, Japs calculate, the balloon should have reached its goal. Another automatic gadget then starts it dropping, one by one; its load of incendiary bombs. When the last egg has been laid, a third automatic device (providing it works) permits the Jap balloon, in true Nipponese style, to blow itself...
Spring Trimming. In Onawa, Iowa, Wilbur Nielsen spring-feverishly agreed to shovel all paths if his wife mowed the lawn all summer, sat back contentedly to watch her administer the first trimming, had to get out the next day and shovel a full load of belated snow...
forum, M.C.ed by Clifton Fadiman, which gives civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even...
...days later, the potent postwar tax committee (of the Senate and House), of which Senator George is .vice-chairman, started the ball rolling. It handed Congress a carefully drafted plan to ease the backbreaking tax load on corporations. Main point: some corporations should be able to use immediately some of the postwar credits which they have piled up (under the excess profits tax, emergency war plant amortization plan, etc.). By speeding these rebates, the committee estimated that corporations would get a rousing $5.7 billion, principally in the next three years, to help pay for reconversion and postwar expansion...