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...Took over Rome's Grand Hotel, where the ballroom had been turned into a massive theater lobby containing blown-up Quo Vadis displays, exhibits of tie-in merchandise, a seemingly endless 16 mm. trailer of the picture (which many of the managers had not yet seen). ¶ Attended a luncheon which wound up with a roaring tribute from a caged lion...
...horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading their old shacks on giant gooseneck trailer trucks. But the village's white residents scattered-"the D.P.s of World War III," they call themselves. New Ellenton was too much of a boom town for their taste; its population reached 4,000 within a few months. Some of its business enterprises: Atomic Motor Sales, Oak Ridge Grocery, Atomic...
...wives between the twin capitals of Riyadh and Mecca. Each car has six doors, accommodates six wives (plus chauffeur and attendant), has electric fans, special windows so the women can see out but no one can see in. For himself, Ibn Saud is getting a $20,000 mahogany-paneled trailer from Tulsa, Okla., which has a throne room, a bedroom (with a 5-by-7-ft. bed) and an elevator to load & unload the King in his wheelchair...
...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...