Word: unload
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the weather is too low for precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut down their fuel load and have bomb-rack room to load up with explosives. At Emden the Fortress load averaged around four tons each. Extra bomb racks had done the trick, without sacrifice of the Forts' defensive power...
...Montgomery County, Alabama, the cotton bolls hung heavy on the plants. If they were not picked in a hurry, September rains would ruin the crop. In New Jersey an appeal for volunteers to unload freight had brought 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours (TIME, Sept. 6). Now the Alabama planters staged their own campaign, for a modest 400 men, women & children cotton pickers...
...frantic call went out to the U.S. Army to send 1,000 soldiers from Fort Dix to help unload. Meanwhile, half a million bushels of tomatoes were in dan ger of rotting on truck, freight car and vine. A volunteer crew of more than 2,000 citizens and servicemen worked over the weekend, saved the waiting truckloads...
...especially designed to persuade a war manufacturer to go all-out now without worrying about the pains of sudden victory. In V-loan contracts, interest automatically stops if & when an order is canceled. Further, the maturity date can be postponed. Thus, when war ends, a V-borrower can unload most financial obligations for canceled war orders on the U.S. Government, where they belong. Meanwhile it can conserve its own cash for conversion to peace. Within the past few weeks, four other aircraft companies have taken a total of $375,000,000 in V-loans...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., it appeared, owed Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham a bottle of Scotch-the General had bet the Admiral that it would take more than eight days to unload the task force on Sicily...