Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
...only strong criticism is that Pablo was allowed to sleep through the curtain calls. If the Pudding wants to win friends, they better wake Gwynne up and give him a call all by himself. Maybe they could rig a hammock in midstage...
Foreign Investment. Two oil companies made the first big postwar investments of U.S. private capital in Italy. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)* became a partner in Italy's rig ANIC (Azienda Nazalonale Idrogena-zione Combustibili), by putting up $6,000,000. It will get a 50% interest in a new company which will modernize and operate two ANIC refineries, with a combined daily capacity of 16,000 barrels, at Leghorn and Bari. Caltex Oil Products Ho., joint subsidiary of the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, bought an interest in Italy's Petrolea S.A., subsidiary of FIAT...
...walk" to be his official escort at the inauguration. He wouldn't be able to march along with them. "I'll be wearing a high silk hat and a long-tailed coat," he said, "and I'm not going to march along in that rig...
Theodore Roosevelt, who grew up to brandish a big stick, got an early start as a collegiate boxer. An exhibit of photographs, letters and other TRivia that opened last week in Manhattan furnished some fierce pictorial proof: a bewhiskered Teddy in his teens in fighting rig (with scowl to match) as a Harvard undergraduate...