Word: cart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workman's Compensation. In Birmingham, after being arrested for drunken pedaling of his three-wheeled ice-cream cart. Thomas Bogan, 53, was "grounded" for 60 days by Recorder's Court Judge Oliver Hall, but charged only one-fourth of the usual fine because he was "generating his own power...
...Delhi, the temperature was 100.7°, and the welcome even warmer. There, warned by Bombay, the police had put up barriers of steel tubing to hold back the crowds, who came 10,000 strong by bus, bicycle, rickshaw and bullock cart to shout "Long live the God of Peace." But the steel was as a willow withe before a flood. As India's President, flanked by Indian officials, proffered his returning Prime Minister a bunch of roses, the fence fell and the crowd surged forward. Somebody yanked the President to safety, but the Minister of Production lost a sandal...
Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart...
...miner that can eat into a coal seam at the rate of 4½ feet per minute, mine eight tons of coal in the same time (see cut). Two boring arms bite into the coal, cut it into small pieces and carry it by conveyor belt to a waiting cart. Joy, with 300 older continuous miners in operation, says its new giant will carve out twice as much coal as the older models. Even before the new "Twin Borer" could be wheeled onto the floor, an Indiana producer snapped...
Died. Kamilla Koffler, 44, Austrian-born wildlife photographer, known professionally as "Ylla"; of injuries received in a jeep accident while photographing a bullock-cart race; in Bharatpur, India...