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Concentrating in the Charleston (S.C.)-Charlotte-Atlanta triangle, where the amphetamine traffic seemed heaviest, two inspectors driving a borrowed, repainted Army trailer-truck spent six weeks making buys at the spots turned up in the preliminary survey. At one drugstore they had no trouble buying 2,000 pep pills, saying they wanted to peddle them to other drivers. But a second druggist was smarter: he took $55 from the inspectors for a thousand pills that turned out to be aspirin...
...four levels high, has 20 floors of office space above. The nine acres of floor space can be used for one gigantic show, or fenced off for smaller ones. A wide truck ramp leads up to the second floor; 49-ft.-long elevators, big enough to handle the largest trailer-rig on the highways, can carry exhibits to the top floors for unloading at display booths. The building has daylight lighting, complete air conditioning in all its display space, built-in floor connections for telephones, water, gas, electricity, radio and TV, and seating space for 10,000 people if exhibitors...
Amphibihouse. For travel-minded vacationers California's Neptuna Corp. has put on sale a house trailer that can pull up its wheels and transform itself into a houseboat. Built of steel and marine plywood, the 26½-ft.-long trailer can be powered in water by a 7½ h.p. outboard motor. It contains sleeping quarters for four, a kitchen, dining area and lavatory. The idea has proved so popular in California that Neptuna is producing five to seven trailer-boats a day. Price, without outboard motor...
...such bits of news are made public, a bolt of industrial lightning strikes the locality mentioned. A cornfield or patch of desert blossoms with bulldozers; roads and railroads unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas, and a new breed of men move into town. They speak a novel language, using words like "parameter," "lox," "apogee" and "servo." They join in the life of the local community, but remain people apart, given to sudden silences...
...After a few months, however, he joined the Coast Guard, lying about his age (he was 16). After nine months, including 63 days AWOL, he was discharged as a minor. In January 1950, he was back in Denver. The next year he went to work for a manufacturer of trailer-truck equipment as a $200-a-month payroll clerk. A month later, Graham stole a batch of company checks, forged the name of an official on them, and cashed $4,200 worth in three days. Then he left on a five-state joy ride in a new convertible. Eight months...