Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomber, a bigger, faster version of the B-47. Intended as a replacement for the giant, cigar-shaped B-36 (and as a rival of a new sweptwing, all-jet B-36), the swift new heavy, powered by eight jet engines, will have almost the same range and bomb load as the B-36, and a lot more speed. If all goes well, the B-52 will make its maiden flight next fall, start coming off production lines twelve months later, six years after the first design and a full year ahead of schedule...
Said Howe: "On a per capita basis, we shall probably carry more [of a defense load] than many of our allies ... To you in the United States who are used to thinking in astronomical totals, the figures may not appear large, but relatively, they represent something like a comparable drain on the national output...
...Meet the Press, sponsored by Revere Copper and Brass, tries to maintain a fairly even balance of opinion on its reporters' panel. "We never load the panel against the man being interviewed," explains Martha Rountree, "because people are always for the underdog. Why, with a loaded panel I could take the worst man in the country and make him a martyr...
...from Chicago the soothing ladies'-club voice of Eleanor Roosevelt was heard saying: "It is unfortunate when anyone feels the strain they are under so greatly that they are unable to think things through . . . But you must realize that President Truman is carrying the greatest load in history"-even greater, she added, than that carried by her husband...
...middle of Boston Harbor is an island piled high with garbage and rubbish. Spectacle Island has long been the dump for central Boston, at great cost to everyone. In 1951 the Coleman Disposal Company will charge $530,000 to truck rubbish to two Atlantic Avenue piers, load it onto scows, and tow it out to the island. Because no new company wants to invest the large sums necessary for scows and other equipment on the mere chance of getting a contract, the Coleman Company has a virtual monopoly. It has held its job for the last 30 years...