Word: loading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Transatlantic mail service offers a great opportunity for American enterprise. For this purpose we must make it possible to pick up burdens on the wing, in order that a plane could start on its trip across the Atlantic with a full load of baggage and comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic...
...Flinn goes on to say that the writer of the CRIMSON editorial advocated our breaking faith with our fighting men. I am somewhat at a loss to know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...
...Navy. The balloon itself is 175 feet long, 35 feet, wide and 50 feet high, including the car. It is propelled by a 150 horse-power Sturtivant motor which drives two propellors of the swivel type. It is capable of carrying a crew of eight men and a useful load of two thousand pounds. The balloon can rise either from the water or the land. The dirigible is now being finished in the works of the Connecticut Aircraft Company in Portsmouth, N. H., and on completion will be shipped to Hartford and set up in the Armory. The battery...
...number of men who have been present to support the University team. This year, with the course only twenty minutes from the Square, there is no reason why several hundred men should not be on hand when the cross-country team meets Cornell. Cornell is here with a train-load of rooters and must be met on an equal footing. Between the race this morning and the game this afternoon there will be plenty of chance for the spirit that has been breaking out in College this fall to bubble over to some purpose...
...Rhodes pointed out that every plant has to be built to carry the maximum load, and that this maxamum load is very much greater than the average load. He showed the finctuations of night and day, and of winter and summer, both for lighting and railways; and compared the different kinds of engines used. In running a power plant it is the fixed charges that must be watched closely, and Mr. Rhodes figured that the average fixed charges per annum for the various different engines amounts to 12 1-2 per cent. of the initial cost, the distribution being...