Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next week ABC will launch Treasure Hunt (Fri. 9 p.m.), offering a paltry $25,000 to the person who picks the right treasure out of a muckle of 50 chests. If he misses the moneybags, he may still win title to a car, speedboat, house trailer, round-the-world cruise or a head of cabbage. Treasure Hunt will be the only show on the air that will call for old-fashioned wishbone-type luck. Says ABC President Bob Kintner: "We are more interested in giving away entertainment...
...TRAILER DWELLERS now number 3,000,000 in U.S., and "mobilehome" builders expect 1956 sales to go up 15% over last year's record $435 million. Reasons for the large jump: more livable trailers (air conditioning, built-in bars, etc.), high rents, national wanderlust...
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...