Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholarships which do not cover all their need, and, also, to students not awarded any outright gifts. Previously, if a scholarship student needed aid above scholarship funds, it was necessary for him to work. He now has the option of taking a loan instead, or of decreasing his work load and taking a smaller loan...
...also true that 688 scholars took advantage of the late hours on another night--almost equalling the peak total of users earlier in the day. Despite this capacity load, however, the librarians still ask whether the occasional full-scale use is worth the additional expense. But one estimate places the cost per term at $2,500; last year's skeleton operation required only...
...Union local, explained that he either had to cut expenses or shut down. The drivers agreed to help by giving up their nonproductive pay (e.g., pay and expenses for hotel rooms, meals, taxis, etc., that drivers get when they break down on the road or are waiting for a load). Cole estimated this at 20% of his payroll. Shortly after, his drivers changed their minds, refused to give up their nonproductive pay, and struck. Later the union offered to permit its members to lend 20% of their wages for six months, but Cole replied: "We don't need...
...four Allison T40 turboprop engines developing a total 22,000 h.p., Convair's Flying LST is expected to cruise at better than 350 m.p.h., have a range of more than 2,000 miles, and climb faster than some World War II fighter planes. It can carry a cargo load of 24 tons, equivalent to four 155-mm. howitzers, three 2½-ton trucks, six jeeps and two half-tracks. As a transport, it can pack in 150 fully equipped troops...
...bomber first flew in 1946, it was the world's mightiest (wing span: 230 ft.; weight: 179 tons) and first intercontinental bomber. With six 3,800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines (plus four General Electric J47 jets), it can fly 10,000 miles with a five-ton bomb load, tote as much as 42 tons of bombs for shorter distances at speeds up to 435 m.p.h...