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...trees from Florence to Leghorn, Sculptor Greenough sent Congress a bill for $8,311.90. As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300. It took two weeks of fussing to load the huge statue on the Sea. The ship's captain charged the Government $100 a day for demurrage...
...inch steel bearings loaded into the muzzle of each piece are fired by 22 calibre blank cartridges which load at the breech. Cylindrical lengths of steel fit inside the muzzle to regulate the muzzle velocity and ensure uniformity of range with all four guns...
Thus Japanese diplomacy has forced the hands of the leading nations. A false move in any direction is likely to load to a race for naval supremacy. Arrogant from their recent successes on every front, Japan is attempting to utilize a period of depression to place itself on a basis of equality with its great Pacific rivals, the United States and England...
...offset the tremendous empty mileage developed by this system, the American Railway Association ruled that each railroad should load idle foreign cars in preference to system cars destined for other tracks. Several railroads have "frozen" per diem agreements providing a fixed penalty period for foreign cars, usually from three to five days. Thus, foreign cars may be held, with a maximum penalty charge of $3 to $5 per car, pending such loading as may be in prospect. Empty hauls are thus substantially reduced...
...good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...