Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contractor paid by the National Park Service is beginning to drag to safety some of the carved stones that are not too big to load onto trucks. Other carvings will be quarried free from the solid rock. A public campaign has been organized to raise money to supplement the Park Service's meager ($8,000) appropriation, but not all the carvings can be saved from the water. Next best is to copy them accurately, and Sculptor James Hansen and his wife Annabelle are doing this by making impressions in melted...
...altogether-just as Tidewater Oil Co. did two years ago. The Esso plant pays one-fourth of the tax bill of Bayonne (pop. 81,500), has a $1,000,000 monthly payroll for its 1,800 workers. Said Mississippi-born Edwards: "If we pull out and shift the tax load to other industries, a number of these other industries will also pull out. The city would go bankrupt...
...Self-loading Truck. Denver's Mighty Mover Co. showed off an open framework trailer truck that drives over its load, then, with cables on pulleys, hoists the load firmly into the framework. The Straddle Trailer, which can pick up loads 50 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, can be pulled by a truck cab at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. (cost...
...them was chief of the revolutionary committee in his home city. Two are engineers, Hamdry Miklos specializing in applications of atomic radiation to warfare, and the other, Istvani Remenyi, in load distributions anl power plant engineering...
Naturally, one would argue that U.N.E.F. hasn't really had very much to do--yet. After some hesitation, the invading powers themselves made their own decision to withdraw, reacting more to the force of world opinion and the threat of Soviet 'volunteers' than to the first, plane-load of Norwegian regulars. And, as Mr. Gaitskell pointed out last week, it is a real question whether U.N.E.F. ever would have come into existence if the contributing nations--including Commonwealth countries--had expected to fight the British army. The real task facing the U.N. troops is really just beginning to appear...