Word: payloads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heights on the transcontinental run. T.W.A. plans to put six in service early in 1938, has an option on 17 more. One statistic to show size: in addition to 32 passengers, the 307 will carry a cargo weighing more than the DC-3's entire payload...
...Pullman, giving passengers more comfort and room to use such gewgaws as bridge tables, footstools, chessmen magnetized so they will not tumble in rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore United made its new "Skylounges" the world's first extra-fare planes, imitating the standard practice of special trains and crack liners. In addition to the normal New York-Chicago fare of $47.95, passengers are surcharged...
...since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch of wheelbase, an important factor because of legal limitations on truck lengths. Short trucks are also easier to maneuver in cramped quarters, and Autocars are a favorite with coal dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend on its common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid...
...year's plates. But California welcomed him with open arms, required only a month's registration fee. Finally, after $3,000 had been thus spent, all was ready. Garnished with $1,000 in travelers' checks, the 13 drivers set out with a 90,000-lb. payload guaranteed for delivery in Los Angeles in five days...
Today the loft on the Journal's roof houses 76 cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs with elastic. The Journal used 20 pigeons on the Crempa story, finds them useful in covering ship-news, trials, sports, outlying murders. From ships at Quarantine, 14 miles away, the Journal gets pictures of incoming celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival papers must wait two hours until the ship docks...