Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Both Feet. On the day of Pearl Harbor, Jimmy Doolittle, then a major, told friends at Los Angeles Municipal Airport: "I'm going to get in this thing with both feet. I'm going to Tokyo with a load of bombs." Doolittle, who once demonstrated a commercial plane with his two broken ankles in plaster casts, is no braggart. Now, having made good, he told Washington newsmen about his deed of derring-doolittle in formal Army lingo...
...trucks are essential to the U.S. Some 48,000 communities have no railroad service; most U.S. farm crops are trucked to market; the railroads would bog down if they had to reshoulder the freight load the trucks have taken from them. The trucking industry is only around 20 years old, but its 700,000 common carriers did a business last year of more than $1 billion and, together with the 2,550,000 private and 1,500,000 farm trucks, handled 18% of the nation's freight. The common carrier truckers, moreover, now carry war materials about...
...mechanics and ground men). The Army did not take over the airlines to increase their efficiency-that has been tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone. And more planes were needed to tote the load. Thus airline engineers and mechanics will soon start converting some 75 silver-sided transports into grim, olive-grey cargo planes. After the seats have been ripped out and husky floors and big doors or hatches installed, the ships will hop-skip all over the U.S. with ammunition, spare parts, engines...
...available men were used in a system of group tutorial that would save both time and money, this principale instrument of a liberal education need not be contracted. The average load of tutees is now 28 per tutor; the average yearly tutorial budget $300,000. By enlisting the full cooperation of the Houses, tutees could be grouped into effective teachable units. The House staffs which will be increased to meet the demands of entering Freshmen know their men as individuals and can shoose compatible groups. The success of the interdepartmental conferences in Eliot House this year shows that group instruction...
...increasing load on childhood is not all to the good. Industry has absorbed more thousands than ever before and, with evacuees still straggling back to bombed areas, child labor gives authorities many a worry. Juvenile delinquency continues to rise; petty larceny is a main complaint. Boys twelve years old have even been caught stealing soap. Plymouth gasped recently when it learned of a 14-year-old boy who stole money even though earning ?9 a week, of another who drank nine pints of beer each night...