Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scottsdale, near Phoenix, Ariz., one day last week, a trailer-towing car tooled into the Oasis Mobile Home Park. The driver and his wife gazed appreciatively at the neat flower beds and the swimming pool, the recreation hall and the nine-hole putting green, the croquet court and the three shuffleboard courts. The weekly schedule of activities, posted by the "sunshine girl" or social director, revealed plans for potluck dinner, pinochle games, bridge night, dancing, and classes in ceramics and art. The well-fitted trailers-preferably called mobile homes-were leashed to water lines and TV lines, phone lines...
...hours before his death) and his purposeful dedication to religion. He worked with alcoholics, tried to convert a Roman Catholic, helped conduct services at a local jail, plunged into the Youth for Christ movement. He lived for a time with fundamentalist families, later moved into a trailer park. Most of all, he longed for his children. Says a friend, recalling how Lavrinc had missed his daughter: "He said he had always wanted a little blonde-headed girl, and now that he had her, he couldn't be with...
...foot mobile language laboratory went on display around the University for the first time yesterday. The trailer, christened the Harvard-Arlington Instruction Van, is the heart of a co-operative project for teaching elementary French to 350 sixth-graders in the Arlington public schools...
...Marines' Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, many a leatherneck's family has been living for months in cramped trailer quarters. For exercise they can stroll out to stare wistfully at 123 Marine houses that for nine months have needed only a day's work to make them ready for occupancy. At Nike villages in Texas, families have been prevented from joining their missilemen for nine more months for lack of housing. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the winter winds whip through the half shells of some $11.3 million in unfinished, abandoned housing projects...
...borders, the state five years ago launched an industrial development program. Its heart was a $20 million revolving fund authorized to make loans to nonprofit development agencies for the construction of new plants in distressed areas. Result: the plan has attracted 389 plants (including Radio Corp. of America, Fruehauf Trailer and Chrysler Corp.) providing 106,000 factory jobs, encouraged the expansion of 700 existing firms, put to work 391 idle plants...