Word: trailered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York City's La Guardia field and neighboring airports one night last week rolled 59 trailer trucks hauling the largest single consignment of air freight in the history of commercial aviation. It took the entire cargo facilities of American Airlines and six other lines to carry the 112 tons. The shipment consisted of razor blades-25 million of them. They were flown to 381 U.S. cities, to appear simultaneously on 150,000 retail counters...
Other new scientific notes: ¶ A surveying gadget built into two small boxes mounted on a trailer (to be pulled by a car or jeep), has been developed by the Sun Oil Co. Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend...
Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
Down in the basement of Lyman Labs, Nobel Prizewinner Percy W. Bridgman is learning what happens to things when you squeeze them hard. With huge hydraulic presses, Bridgman has squeezed one cubic inch of matter with the pressure of 1000 trailer trucks...
...Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...