Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck driver was Roy A. (for August) Fruehauf, 42, president of the Fruehauf Trailer Co. As head of the company which puts more trailers (i.e., freight vans pulled behind trucks or "truck-tractors") on the road than any other trailer-maker, he has a public-relations job to perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume, truckers think that...
...best guess would be that the Crimson is likely to prove that the seedings are wrong. Last weekend the Harvard oarsmen looked very good and in practice during the week they have continued to perform consistently well. A delicate mechanism like a crew is bound to go bad once in a while and that's probably what happened against Princeton...
...Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...
...dusty basement of McCosh Hall. On display last week in Princeton's handsome new library, the antique wreck still puzzles Princeton's learned faculty. Not quite sure what to do with the astronomical marvel, Princeton's astronomers have not yet discovered how to make it perform...
...forklift truck, major instrument of the change, is at least 32 years old. But it was not until World War II, when the U.S. Navy used forklift trucks to perform prodigious feats of loading & unloading battle cargo, that U.S. industry woke up to the fact that it had been squandering its manpower by doing most of its lifting by hand. It was paying $9 billion a year, roughly one-fourth of the total U.S. factory payroll, just to pick things up and set them down...