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Naked children scuttled to cover behind mud huts. Startled vultures lurched up from the roadway. Down the muddy roads of Venezuela's back country roared a ten-ton Fruehauf truck-trailer. Loaded with chilled beef from the Government's new slaughterhouse at inland Calabozo, it was bound on a twelve-hour haul to the meat-hungry markets of Caracas...
...Independence, Mo., last week, Bess and Margaret Truman turned out to see it. The owner of the biggest department store in town had thought up an ideal going-away gift for his newly married daughter and son-in-law: a deluxe, $2,500 trailer to solve their housing problem at the University of Missouri...
Collegians Arthur and Ellen Whitman, in their 12 ft. by 25 ft. trailer, with hot and cold air, rows of bookshelves and murals in all three rooms, will have the prize housing package on the campus. But 300 other student families at Missouri will also live in trailers, parked on an abandoned golf course and two lots. Missouri, bulging with 10,000 students instead of its prewar 6,000, last week postponed the opening of college until enough barracks could be knocked down at Fort Leonard Wood and transplanted 96 miles to the campus...
...legend: one of the town's earliest editors dropped the A because it made his journal's masthead too long; no one complained, so it was never used again. *Among other good catches: a Glenn L. Martin plastics plant; a Butler Brothers metallurgical plant; a Fruehauf Trailer Co. assembly factory. *Greater Cleveland (pop. 1,250,000) is Cuyahoga County. Cleveland has 13 suburbs ranked as cities (the largest is Lakewood with 65,900 population) and 41 suburbs ranked as villages...
...fish would get $560 in prizes: a camp cook stove, camp refrigerator, utility light, aluminum lawn mower, goatskin coat, outboard motor, suit of clothes, a woman's fur coat, two wool blankets and 52 cases of Pepsi-Cola. Another $6,000 in premiums, including a new car and trailer, would go with the first fish tag ending...