Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stone Age and early Bronze Age men between 1900 B.C. and 1600 B.C., Stonehenge's most prominent features are a 97-ft. ring of 25-ton uprights and horizontal slabs (known as the Sarsen Circle) surrounding five huge trilithons or archways. To build them, primitive Britons had to haul stones weighing as much as 50 tons overland from a quarry 20 miles away. For hundreds of years, archaeologists have probed around and under the structure in a vain attempt to understand what motivated its builders. Charred bones and artifacts convinced some that it had been a mortuary, a crematorium...
Even more than the automakers, whose 1966 sales are off to a roaring start, U.S. truck manufacturers thrive on good times. As the economy grows, demand for trucks to haul everything from flowers to forge castings grows even faster. In 1965, for the fourth consecutive year, the U.S.'s 14 truck manufacturers expect to shatter records by turning out 1,500,000 vehicles and running up a 10% sales increase. Last week International Harvester, the industry's third largest company, announced that its truck sales have surpassed $1 billion for the first time, thus making Harvester the first...
...dominated by Harvester, White Truck and Mack-in which volume is lower but individual price tags vastly higher. Most orders come from interstate freight lines and are for huge tractor-trailers. Railroad piggybacking has not harmed this market as truck makers feared it would. Railroads still need trucks to haul trailers off freight cars and on to destinations; besides, trucks are still the most economical carriers for runs under 500 miles...
...slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders and bolder engineering to meet requirements in Viet Nam. The industry is pushing along helicopter development to produce craft that go faster, haul more, operate longer and require less maintenance-all to its eventual commercial benefit...
...buyers, including Mack Trucks, the University of Connecticut, several amusement parks and the city of Stamford, Conn. Borden Co. will pay about $35,000 to the Wisconsin pavilion for the world's largest cheese 34,591-lb., 14½-ft.-long cheddar, which the company plans to haul in a refrigerated "cheesemobile" and display around the U.S. To their employees, Ford will sell most of its cars, Du Pont its furniture and RCA its color TV sets -at substantial markdowns...