Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORD re-creates the past with immense prehistoric monsters (bodies by Disney) that clash in battle and sound like dueling trailer trucks. Presumably, Ford mechanics sneak in at night to hammer out the dents on the dinosaurs. There is also a colony of cartoon-caricatured cavemen, all looking like early ancestors of the boy on the cover of Mad Magazine...
FORD re-creates the past with immense prehistoric monsters (bodies by Disney) that clash in battle and sound like dueling trailer trucks. Presumably Ford mechanics sneak in at night to hammer out the dents on the dinosaurs. There is also a colony of cartoon-caricatured cavemen all looking like early ancestors of the boy on the cover of Mad Magazine...
...Backseat Drivers. The biggest advantage of pickup campers over trailers, aside from their greater maneuverability, is that passengers may loll comfortably in back while tooling along the highway (riding in a trailer is forbidden by many states as too dangerous). This is a boon for the driver too, since backseat drivers can only communicate with him by banging on the window or installing an intercom-though one manufacturer is considering making a truck with a roll-down back window that would allow passengers to crawl from living room to pilot's compartment...
...near-empty lot in downtown Hamden, Conn. (pop. 46,000), three 28-year-old entrepreneurs telephoned busily and dispatched letters last week from a modest and makeshift trailer. Their aim: to market a $3,000,000 stock issue that they will use to open a bank. The men, all trained in junior executive positions at the Chase Manhattan Bank (two have left), are typical of a bold new breed who are making new banks bloom all over the U.S. after a 40-year decline in total numbers...
...jeers continued, but Goldwater managers were alarmed about the exhibition. In an inconspicuous trailer parked behind the Cow Palace, F. Clifton White, a Goldwater lieutenant, picked up a microphone and barked: "All call! All call!" The message went over the lines to 30 phones on the convention floor. "If there is any booing in your delegations, stop it immediately," ordered White. Within three minutes Goldwater's legions pinpointed the main source of the catcalls in the galleries, scurried up the steps and asked offenders to give Rocky a break. They never really...