Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocket's trajectory, it falls rapidly in the near-vacuum 60 to 100 miles up. When it reaches the denser atmosphere below, it straightens out and begins to revolve. The blades open. Spinning like a maple seed, the rotochute slows down and lands its load of instruments at a safe 27 m.p.h...
...form Transocean. Nelson still spends most of his time piloting Transocean planes (his wife, a former United Air Lines stewardess, still occasionally flies with him, as stewardess). On his flights he keeps a sharp eye out for new business; so do his pilots. One recently took off with a load of Army supplies for Germany. In Paris he loaded up with Jewish emigrants bound for Australia, in Australia he drummed up a cargo of meat for Guam; from Guam he carried furloughed workers to Oakland, Calif., where Transocean headquarters sent him back to Windsor Locks, Conn., his starting point, with...
...Surface. Penman Milton Reynolds came up from the murky underwater world of ball-point pens with an eyecatching new gadget. It was a transparent plastic cigarette lighter with an oversize load of fluid-enough, he said, for 8,304 lights v. 842 for an ordinary lighter. Reynolds said that he has advance orders for 250,000 (including 50,000 for Gimbels), and that subcontractors, already producing 18,000 a day, would soon step up production to 70,000. The price, with the plastic stand and case: $5. So that customers will not associate the lighter with his much-panned...
What started as a mere yacht race between a dinghy-load of Radcliffe girls and a like contingent of Harvard Yacht Club members has turned into a full-scale regatta...
...these skippers share the racing load equally, since most races are run on a round-robin system where skippers from each college rotate assignments and boats...