Word: trailered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trailer medical centers to the trailer chapels now used in non-Catholic regions. The St. Louis Archdiocese has just built a twelve-ton truck trailer medical unit to tour doctorless-dentistless districts and serve both Catholics and non-Catholics...
...last week a trailer truck backed up to the Aquarium, rumbled away with 1,000 fish for the Marine Park Aquarium in Boston. A six-foot green moray refused to go, hid under a rock for an hour until a keeper warily prodded him out. Another 2,000 fish left for aquariums in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington. The sea lions now rest uneasily in the lions' house at The Bronx Zoo, where some 4,000 smaller fish and reptiles will join them. They will live in the Zoo until a new Aquarium is built at Coney Island. Another...
Catholic missionaries are making effective use of trailer chapels with living quarters and kitchens for the priests who man them and with a permanent altar opening in back for open-air services (see cut, p. 50). Typical technique is that of the Paulist Fathers in Tennessee, where their St. Lucy Trailer Chapel covers 13 counties. In each hamlet visited they show a religious movie, give a talk, answer questions asked by their hearers (many of whom have never seen a priest before). They take the names and addresses of all who are interested, and later one of the priests returns...
Last week twelve years of civil war were at an end in Texas. It began in 1928, when Texas highways were narrow and motorists found big truck and trailer haulers pushing them right off the road. The State adopted the lowest maximum truckload limit in the U.S.: 7,000 lb. Among growers and shippers in the fertile Rio Grande Valley, rebellion has been popping almost ever since...
...Importance. Eloquent was Dr. Moody on the new importance of the chaplain. No longer must he double as canteen or mess officer, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director. Now he can concentrate on his spiritual work, aided by the Army's new mobile trailer chapels (there are only twelve so far), complete with altar, loudspeaker, vestments and altar furnishings, portable organ, Bibles, religious literature, other morale equipment. "In 1917," said Dr. Moody, "we were furnished a flag-a piece of blue bunting with a white cross on it. What else? Nothing. . . . It is estimated that 45% of the Army...