Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing first-into an open field, a mile short of the runway...
...Away. In the first, long moment of silence, wisps of smoke began to curl out of the mangled metal. Then, as ambulances and fire trucks roared down from their ready stations, one of the crew jumped out of the wreckage and circled dazedly until a sergeant ran from the trailer camp to lead him away. Miraculously seven others, including Captain Steffes and his copilot, managed to drag themselves free. "Let's get out of here," one of them mumbled. "There are bombs on there...
...voice murmurs: "Hello, muffin, this is your lonesome gal. How are you tonight, baby? Your lonesome gal loves you better than anybody in the world, just remember that . . ." These fudgelike endearments, dripping from U.S. radios every weekday night, cause chest flutterings and glassy stares in cross-country truck-and-trailer rigs, diners, Army barracks and teen-age bedrooms from El Pasp to Boston...
...memos ranged from a pep talk on meeting the threat of television ("Quality is the only answer") to a query on a line of dialogue ("Can we get by with the word 'louse'? I thought it was taboo"). One memo noted that the titles in a trailer for a new movie were a "trifle too lurid." Another instructed a producer shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week...
...late afternoon. The drenching rain flooded the paved depression where State Street dips under a bridge out on the sprawling South Side. It forced a trucker named Mel Wilson to drive slowly as he hauled 8,000 gallons of gasoline into the city in a heavy truck & trailer rig. It kept Loop crowds huddled in doorways until just before Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7078 came by. Then the rain ended, and No. 7078-one of a speedy new type which Chicagoans call "Green" Hornets"-was quickly jammed...