Word: trailered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refusing admission to all out-of-staters but G.I.s. The University of Vermont has lodged some of its overflow in the Army's Fort Ethan Allen. The University of Michigan has set up a prefabricated "vet's village." Wisconsin's "Vetsburg" is a thriving town of trailers. Some 50 other campuses have trailer colonies housing from 100 to 400 couples. Unmarried students at Indiana University sleep in dormitory hallways and on cots set up in gyms and locker rooms...
Carl Sandburg, white-haired poet of the Midwest, finally decided that Michigan was too cold for him, prepared to move to North Carolina. His new home: the Hendersonville house of the Confederacy's Secretary of the Treasury Christopher Memminger. With him in an auto-trailer he planned to take his wife Lillian and about a dozen goats...
Roll Out the Bank. The Schult Corp. delivered to Paul C. Thurston, president of Maine's Rumford Falls Trust Co., a blue and grey bank-on-wheels. Thurston will do a roving banking business within a go-mile radius of his Rumford Falls bank. The 23-ft. trailer is equipped with a cashier's counter, a teller's cage, a private office, and a stout safe...
...stockholders, who have borne previous Budd spending (Budd ideas have sometimes lost money at a million a clip), shuddered. But they had small reason. The company had over $19 million in working capital, and already held backlog orders for 700 railroad cars. Budd also expects to expand its truck-trailer business, plus its customary body-building orders from Ford, International Harvester, Chrysler, G.M., Nash and Studebaker. The railroad orders alone are greater than the company's entire prewar output...
...many a warehouse improvement: 1) leather-lined rooms for expensive furniture; 2) special mothproof rooms; 3) refrigerated vaults for furs. And last week he was working on a new idea he hoped would revolutionize the moving industry-an "airvan" which can be hauled to an airport as a truck trailer, and connected to a wing assembly for immediate takeoff...