Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keeping constant tabs, if necessary, on each locomotive and its load, Elwood's central control room will be able to do the right thing immediately in emergencies. The system saves money by eliminating block signals, with their miles of underground wire. A check on the system itself is provided by a white light in each cab, blinking every five seconds while the FM set is working, turning red if it goes haywire. The area of the Elwood plant is well within the range of perfect FM reception...
...might have started winging the Atlantic a year ago had it not been for the relentless opposition of PanAmerican Airways and the desire of some Congressmen to "economize " Am Ex will still have rough flying. If the maximum load of 40 passengers pays $525 each, a one-way trip will bring in $21,000, actually $600 less than Pan Am gets for toting just mail on two of its three weeklyflights (mail pay for the third flight: $13,800). Thus Pan Am revenuesstart where...
...influential Tammany district leader, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, demanded the resignation of Tammany Boss Christopher D. Sullivan, also advised scrapping the name Tammany. Reason: "It has become a load that no one can carry...
...boats-PB2Ys, four-en-gined big brothers of the two-engined PBYs. Like everything else Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...
Duhig's two right hands are represented by the "contact" women who place 90 percent of the students. Mrs. Barnes and Miss Baldwin, each a specialist assigned to her own field, carry an equally heavy load and are charged with the engulfing job of placing all the camp councillors, chauffeurs, research chemists, tutor-companions, cooks, bellhops, waiters, and infinite number of others who apply at the office...