Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long-range Army bombers could fly from Hawaii and Johnston Island, refuel and load bombs on Midway, then join the struggle. Or they could fly laden from Hawaii, expend their gasoline and bombs wherever they found Jap warships, then land on Midway if that were possible. If not, they could come down at sea. This was war. This was the kill...
...want you to be brave and strong while I am away. I know you will meet with trials and tribulations, and the burden will seem, at times, too heavy to carry. But some day we shall look back and find that the load wasn't too heavy after all. We must not be like those who think only of themselves...
...thing to do instead of tying up shipping, was to load ships with war supplies and load them fast. When Army-Navy bickering caused top-heavy loadings, sent empty beer bottles to Batavia instead of planes, Bridges scurried to Washington. He wangled appointment of a labor-management board, got a Navy tribute for record shiploading...
...future, it could take a load off the backs and minds of the Council officers, at no great inconvenience to either the student contributor or to the Lehman Hall bookkeeping departments if a fixed yearly sum could be deducted from individual bank accounts by way of the term bill. Perhaps men in College should willingly accept their responsibility for institutions they have backed, but a slight expansion of effort on the part of the University would be a permanent relief to the Council, and would help the undergraduate acquit this responsibility more painlessly...
...Navy began to order small craft (up to 45 ft.) from inland yards, the Slocums hauled them east to tidewater, made that their principal business. Up to now their biggest headache has been the variety of State restrictions on size and length (TIME. April 6), for most of her loads are outsize and require special permits. ODT's new return-load restrictions are giving her a worse headache; for boats are her specialty, and boats nowadays are all moving towards tidewater, not away from...