Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chilean freighter Tolten was unluckier. A fortnight ago, after unloading her cargo at Baltimore, she was proceeding to New York. Chilean flag brightly illuminated, to load return cargo. A U.S. patrol boat ordered her to turn off her lights. Complying, she was presently torpedoed. Of her crew of 29, apparently only one lived to tell what had happened...
...after Pearl Harbor, had two great plants at San Diego. The parts plant makes Consolidated's bits & pieces, from engines down to tiny hydraulic pumps. In the assembly plant they grow into planes-the famed B-24 with more than 3,000-mile range, its four-ton bomb load; the long-range, hard-working PBY-5 flying boat; the massive, four-motored PB2Y2, whose range and bomb load are military secrets...
...second half opened, the Elis, led by high-scoring Tom Vogt, gained a 28 to 23 load only to have the visitors come back with Ed Buckley's seven straight points to take a slight lead. But from this point on, Yale slowly began to edge out in front...
...fault cannot, however, be laid at Mr. Casner's feet. For a man with a heavy teaching load, with administrative duties at the Law School, and with time-consuming connections with the National Guard, he has done an almost super-human job of filing away the bits of information that V-7 and the Marine Corps have bothered to send. There is no reason why he should be expected to make a survey single-handed of the myriad opportunities open to college men, when even the Public Relations office has not found time for it. Any one who has tried...
...missing silverware was finally discovered yesterday afternoon, and a quizzing of the nearest entry-dwellers failed to produce any information concerning the prank. Two strong janitors were needed to get the barrel down stairs, and onlookers wondered how one man, in one trip, could have carried the whole load at once...