Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport in an old trailer, two men huddled over the radarscopes of the field's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) equipment. They were in radio contact with Reid, were watching the glowing radar echo of his plane as it moved across their screens. G.C.A. operators are not responsible for a plane's safety unless they are asked to take over. But almost always, wherever they are stationed, they monitor instrument landings...
After the war there was a return to fundamental research, and out of it, in October 1950, Cohn came up with his first mobile blood fractionation plant that could go to the donors. It was housed in a 32-foot trailer-truck so this refrigerated lab could go along with Red Cross Bloodmibiles processing could start within a few moments after collection. By November the truck was rendered obsolete by the development of the newer methods...
...onetime professor at the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Victor Ziegler long suspected that the land around Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often upended into cactus plants...
...Wednesday afternoon, Deibel jockeyed his shiny orange tractor #684 against the big trailer at Consolidated's Chicago transfer garage. He motioned toward the trailer loaded with 2,350 copies of TIME...
...Bureau of Public Road sent some of its best road builders. A 21,638-mile national highway system was designed. A veteran Public Roads man named Fred D. Hartford lived for months in a trailer with his wife while touring Turkey, building strong, cheap, simple steel bridges of his own design (Turks now call these bridges Hartfords). Today, no matter where you travel between the communications centers of Turkey, you see orange bulldozers, scoops, graders and gangs of men at work. In three years, some 2,500 miles of first-class highway have been...