Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense mobilization program has been entrusted to the hands of a few men recruited from Big Business, who believe they have a monopoly on experience, good ideas and patriotism . . . Let no one doubt that labor is willing to bear its share of sacrifice. But we cannot bear the whole load. We cannot be a party to any program so adverse to the interests of the plain people...
...load is getting too heavy. He's trying to run everything. He'll see anybody. Any Senator or governor or anybody else who has his eye on a patronage job of district attorney, or even chicken-feed jobs, can get in to see him and pour his troubles on the President. There's no reason for his trying to handle these things. He is on a wire edge, and we are trying to get him to take a vacation. He's got to. Or else...
...editors expected our cover story on Senator Paul Douglas' speech ("The Fin of the Shark," Jan. 22) to bring us a heavy load of mail. They were right. But they did not expect something else that happened. The Senator's office was swamped with hundreds of letters and wires of praise for his analysis, as reported in this magazine. Some samples...
...Ohio Highway Patrol weighing station checked 6,700 trucks (not 4,000), and 203 (not 356) were in violation of the so-called legal load limit. This constitutes a 3% violation (not 9%) . . .Of the 3% accused of violations, almost all were for uncontrollable axle weights, and not for gross overweight . . . The great majority of Ohio's truck operators are opposed to all violations of the state's highway laws, regardless of their inequity...
Equipped to carry a five-ton load through a 7-ft.-deep stream, the Eager Beaver does even better. In a grueling Army test, with the driver wearing a portable lung, it went to a depth of eleven feet, cruised without a sputter on the bottom of a clear stream with fish swimming around it (see picture...