Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disneyland went into its fourth season with some hard-sell facts about the future. Instead of a birthday party, Walt Disney produced an hour-long trailer for Disneyland, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clichés of derring-do, and a six-part series called The Saga of Andy Burnett, featuring the standard heroes-errant of the frontier. Cartoon Impresario Disney was trundled about from one plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine...
...with the pomp of a St. James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls for the job of Miss Universe...
Truckers' Treat. A tractor-trailer to take some of the drudgery out of long-haul trucking has been developed for National Van Lines by General Body Co. and White Motor Co. The high-bodied tractor unit perches the driver 8 ft. above the level of the road, which gives him better daytime visibility and avoids the nighttime problem of oncoming headlight glare. Back half of the unit is the equivalent of a rolling motel; instead of a cramped bunk behind the driver's head, the tractor has a small room with two bunks and a lavatory...
...voice of Tokyo was soon drowned out by the growing uproar in the U.S. "Sold down the river," cried the Veterans of Foreign Wars; TO THE WOLVES, SOLDIER, cried the New York Daily News. In Girard's home town, Ottawa, Ill. (he lived there in the family trailer one year before enlisting in 1953) relatives and friends got up a 182-ft. petition protesting "a clear violation" of the U.S.'s duty to stand up for its fighting men. "You have traded the loyalty of the mothers of America for the treacherous yeses of a country that...
Squinting down the highway, Gilbert Robert Peters, 25, at the wheel of a potato-laden tractor-trailer, saw the old flat-bed lumbering into the intersection, hit his brakes in a 147-ft. skid. The heavy tractor slammed into the rear of the workers' truck, threw the truck's people like broken jackstraws across the highway and into the ditches. Twelve of the crumpled people along route 301 were killed outright by the crushing fall; two more were burned alive in a bright ball of gasoline-fed flame. By week's end 20 of the migrants, including...