Word: toting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled Curtiss Commando transports and big-bellied Consolidated 6-24 bombers converted into cargo planes...
...crack mechanics and ground men). The Army did not take over the airlines to increase their efficiency-that has been tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone. And more planes were needed to tote the load. Thus airline engineers and mechanics will soon start converting some 75 silver-sided transports into grim, olive-grey cargo planes. After the seats have been ripped out and husky floors and big doors or hatches installed, the ships will hop-skip all over the U.S. with ammunition, spare parts...
...With Lake shipping space needed to tote some 90,000,000 tons of iron ore, there is slight chance of duplicating last year's 11,000,000-ton grain shipment on the Lakes. Eastern seaboard elevators are brim full of wheat anyway, with no ships to carry it overseas...
...plane two or three times this size would be an almost incredible weapon. As a bomber it could fly from the U.S. to Berlin with 75-125 tons of bombs tucked in its belly, still have plenty of fuel for the return trip. As a transport it could tote 125 fully equipped soldiers, have room for a light 13½-ton tank to boot...
Tire restrictions were being felt all over the nation last week. Milk companies abandoned daily deliveries, began to send their trucks out every other day. Department and grocery stores encouraged patrons to tote their purchases themselves. Black bourses for tires sprang up everywhere, and many an unwary motorist found himself missing a spare. "Do we have to go bankrupt?" wailed tire dealers...