Word: trailered
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...Fruehauf, wealthy truck-trailer manufacturer, who was offered a $1,500,0001oan from Teamster funds by Beck when a proxy battle threatened his company. Fruehauf showed appreciation by arranging a complicated $200,000 personal loan for Beck when the Teamster boss was being investigated by Internal Revenue agents. But Fruehauf drew the line at making a company loan because "I didn't think it was good business...
...movie the Vertijet made its entrance riding horizontally on a low, flat trailer encrusted with mechanism. Test Pilot Peter F. Girard climbed into the cockpit, a mechanic closed the canopy over his head, and the X-13's Rolls-Royce Avon engine began its whining roar...
Then the bed of the trailer reared slowly upward like the body of a dump truck, carrying the X-13 to a vertical position. It was now hanging by an undernose hook from a short length of cable strung between two movable arms at the top of the vertical trailer bed. Its engine roared louder, and slowly the Vertijet rose, standing on an invisible column of hot racing gases. Its hook now free from the cable, it rose higher. Then it curved gracefully into normal, horizontal flying position and roared away out of sight...
...tourists, most of them Americans, to spend more than $500 million-both record-breaking figures. Prices are low from June to September because the major tourist season is in winter. Mexico City in the past year opened 14 new hotels, still has trouble accommodating all the visitors. Motels and trailer parks are springing up around the city, and some boast swimming pools...
There also was testimony from Roy Fruehauf, a Detroit trailer manufacturer, that his company provided an automobile and chauffeur to haul Beck's niece and three girl friends around Europe last summer...