Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coolers used are simply air scoops which pour wind around small pipes carrying the hot, supercharged air. Intercoolers on early Flying Fortresses weighed 92 lb. for each of four engines. Airesearch has produced coolers weighing only 32 lb. each-giving each Fortress an extra 240 lb. of useful load...
Nowadays many a trucker, rooted out of bed at night, is called upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven-truck caravan rumbled out of Massachusetts with freight for a Pacific convoy, despite a Midwest blizzard made the transcontinental run in eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine...
Because of these bottlenecks, truckers cannot load their trucks to capacity, or must unload from one large vehicle to several smaller ones. Goods for Army & Navy as well as for defense factories are held up for hours-hours that are just as perilously lost at the beginning of the trek as in the last ten miles behind the battle line. Some hair-raising case histories...
...Father Joseph Sweeney tried to run the Jap blockade on a Chinese coaster with a vitally needed load of medicine for his leper colony. When two gunboats shelled the ship he slipped overboard and swam six hours before reaching shore. Now, despite the spread of the war, he is busy as ever among his lepers...
...eight and a half million, and a stock will have to be laid in for winter. The pinch is so sharp that it may be necessary to ship most of the return-voyage coal by rail, rushing the boats back empty. Coal takes only three to five hours to load, but eight to twelve hours to unload...