Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scouts not only gave Baron Baden-Powell a Rolls-Royce, which he dubbed "Jam-roll" (be cause of the jamboree and one of the makers) but also an Eccles trailer-caravan, a painting of himself and a cheque for ?2,750. All gifts were made possible by international Scout contributions of one penny each. TIME omitted: Absence of Italian Scouts, dissolved by Mussolini. Yorker - Presence America's oldest Boy Scout, a New Yorker - E. K. Pietsch, 71, 18 years a Scout, who has always refused promotion. He was accompanied by his wife, 70. ... In reference to review...
...pilot of the rearmost glider cut loose from the train and coasted comfortably to earth. Then the pilot of the other trailer did likewise. Finally the motored plane landed...
...Institute is a trailer to the late John Pierpont Morgan's decision that competing iron and steel manufacturers cease cut-throat competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge...
Fierily a fleet of eight-ton trucks and a special trailer were obtained for the work. The length of the transportation unit and until and its great weight were then found to exceed the highway regulations of Connecticut...
...many points on the highway, the 48 foot trailer and its convey of trucks encountered sharp curves, narrow roadways, and other obstacles. However, the highway inspector and the truckmen succeeded in escorting the oak sections safely to Cambridge and the Renaissance acquisition has been installed in the new museum after a memorable pilgrimage from Dijon...