Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be half an hour's delay. Finally we are allowed to move ahead again, and we meet the tanks heading back to the nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still burning. Near by, with automatic rifles perched on the green mounds that separate the paddies, crouch Vietnamese guardsmen, looking out across the flat fields. Several miles away, a black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives...
...with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...
Today, the flight to the country has reached the point where some suburbs themselves are getting crowded: Taxes climb as new schools go up; roads must be paved, police and fire departments organized. Because most suburbs have little industry, the homeowners themselves must carry most of the load. But now industry is seeking the country, too, looking for large tracts of open land to build efficient one-story plants. Of 2,658 plants built in the New York area from 1946 to 1951, only 593 went up in the city proper. The great stores, factories, and office buildings are actually...
...kitchen was bright with the newest gadgets, and brighter still for a load of groceries that Jean McCarthy, his adoring wife, had ordered by long distance from her hospital bed in New York. Joe and the reporter walked through a dining room stacked high with boxes, perhaps 200 of them−wedding presents that the busy McCarthys (married last September have not got around to opening...
...raise the program to an academic level approaching that of the rest of the College. Or the ROTC courses can be limited to practical material, with credit reduced and no pretense of intellectual equality. The first of these measures is unsound, for it would place too heavy a load on the student. The ROTC's are designed to turn out capable officer material for the services--to do this, they must continue to offer the factual material now in the courses. These facts represent the particular skills a military man must have in his background before he can begin...