Word: overladen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been slack in buying Liberty Bonds, caused tortoise-spectacled Chinese Loan Chairman T. V. Soong to retort: "The sale of our bonds is in pleasing contrast to the situation in Japan where 'China Incident' Bonds are being forced down the throats of bankers whose portfolios are already overladen with Government bonds, thus creating a 'Red Ink Bonds Problem' and accelerating the collapse of Japan's economic currency structure." He added that in Shanghai alone $3,000,000 had been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs of $15,000 and up. The fact that Mr. Soong...
...Five" U. S. airlines all want four-motored transports about twice the size of the standard Douglas DC-2. Last spring they banded together to finance such a ship, gave Douglas the job (TIME, March 30). This has not progressed satisfactorily-Douglas is so overladen with other contracts that it may have to farm some out, the design turned out heavier than expected, and the six staffs of engineers have been unable to agree. Result: the DC-4 is still on paper. Meanwhile, Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air have separately been investigating high-altitude flying. P.A.A. decided that...
Major J. Nelson Kelly, manager of the field, who with his wife and Pilot George Haldeman followed the plane in an automobile after its start up the runway, said later that he felt sure de Pinedo would stop after his overladen ship, reeling drunkenly under 1,030 gal. of gasoline, veered almost off the concrete as it got up to 80 m.p.h. But the man in the cabin was obsessed. He straightened the Santa Lucia and roared ahead. He lifted the tail...