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Word: trailered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While students miles away in the University of Missouri are living in trailer camps and sleeping there deep in the gymnasium, authorities here confidently expect "shrinkage" in registration figures to ease present chaotic housing conditions to a satisfactory level. Within a matter of weeks, they predict, students temporarily bunking in the Athletic Building will be allotted dormitory space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Reaches All-Time High; 2,600 Report for Registration Today | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Cowboy Comeback | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Place to Live | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Place to Live | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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