Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About this time the bombardier let loose his load on Kiel. It wasn't too soon because both the bombardier and navigator were hit a moment later. When the ball-turret gunner came up to help, we lifted Steve out of his seat and laid him along the catwalk above the bomb bays and covered him with flying clothes. We had been handing the captain 'walk-around' oxygen bottles after the regular system got busted. Now we gave him Steve's tube. We saw that Steve didn't need it any more...
...advisability of point-to-point appeared when the San Francisco telephone exchange, short of telephones and help, wanted to get rid of the longshoremen's telephone load (some 225 work gangs average 16 men apiece). Twice a day, for five minutes only, KYA now transmits such information as: "Gangs 15 and 75 report to pier...
...Bespectacled, bankerish Burt J. Craig, 57, named last week as treasurer and vice president, joined Ford as a bookkeeper in 1907, was made secretary and assistant treasurer in 1918, has carried most of the treasurer's load since. Quiet-spoken, unspectacular Craig administers Ford deposits in some 100 U.S. banks, never dabbles in production. Because of Henry Ford's complete non-interest in figures, even his own millions, Craig has devised a system which distills the empire resources in a few figures that can be scrawled on a paper, read at a glance...
...succession of airfields from which they flew until they were lost. There was Del Monte on Mindanao, "a pretty turf field right up against the big pineapple cannery." They used it first as a base, then, as the Japs drew closer, as a place to load bombs and gas on missions flown from Australia, "touching it as lightly as you would a hot stove." They flew 18 hours a day, with minutes of cat naps in between, until they were sent down to Java...
...Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen ahead. The tension grew. A man with headphones relayed an order to the starboard 3-in. gun: "Load a star shell...