Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aluminum trailer truck rumbled into Fredericksburg, Va. one day this week and parked near an elementary school. Outside it looked like any ordinary truck, but the inside was unusual: it contained a small, well-stocked art gallery. The truck was Virginia's new "artmobile," the U.S.'s first art gallery on wheels. Its purpose: to bring great art to people who ordinarily never set foot inside a museum...
...Trailer Kit. Chris-Craft Corp., which sells kits for building boats, announced a new build-it-yourself kit for constructing a house trailer. The trailer has aluminum outer walls, wooden frame, floor and paneling, is 14 ft. long and can sleep three. Price: $549, without tires and furniture...
Almost all state officials who have investigated the matter agree that the trucking industry is not paying its fair share of highway costs. Scientific highway tests have proved that huge trailer trucks do far more damage to U.S. roads-and hence make it necessary to build heavier, more expensive roadbeds-than the more numerous passenger cars. And the possibilities of road damage increase far faster than the increase in truck weight; e.g., tests showed that a 22,400-10. axle load caused 6.4 times as much road cracking as an 18,000-lb load. A recent New York State study...
...convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York City broke two Witness records for: 1) mass baptism, with 4,640 new members immersed in five hours; 2) assembly attendance, with some 116,802 packed in and around Yankee Stadium, and another 49,027 in a tent-and-trailer camp across the river in New Jersey...
...always backed out. The Steens lived on oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie bagged on hunting expeditions. In 1950, his savings gone, Steen moved to Tucson, went to work as a carpenter to get a grubstake. After a year, the Steens sold their trailer for $375, climbed into the family jeep and headed back across the desert for Cisco, where they rented a shack with no plumbing or electricity for $15 a month...