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Three days after the crash the first of the helicopters dropped down out of the sky. Even a helicopter could not land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...
...letter pointed out that when the courts were available for tournament and casual players, in additions to the squads, they were barely able to handle the load. Therefore, under present conditions, with enrollments high and facilities cut down by the veterans' housing program, the normal arrangement is out of the question. There just isn't enough room...
This year President Conant will add another assignment to his load. Out of the classroom since 1933, he has volunteered to guest-lecture in the new general education courses in natural science. His recipe for teaching science to nonscientists: a new type of course dealing with the "tactics and strategy" of science, putting a minimum emphasis on factual knowledge, a maximum on scientific method and historical approach...
...last weeks of summer, determined movie customers stood in line, the trade press reported, and through Labor Day "box offices bulged . . with the biggest load of coin many had ever taken over a weekend. . . "What they stood in line to see, according to Variety...
...strictly political strike of their own the day before the maritime strike became general, A.F.L. longshoremen refused to load one UNRRA ship in Manhattan because its cargo was destined for Yugoslavia...