Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
PIGGYBACK SHIPPING will get a big boost from the Office of Defense Mobilization. ODM has set an expansion goal of 25 "roll-on, roll-off" oceangoing vessels to be used to ferry either trailer trucks or railroad freight cars, will grant fast tax write-offs to firms building the ships until Dec. 31, 1956. Three shipping companies have already signed up to build five ships worth $14.5 million...
...MORE TRAILER SHIPS are in the offing. For runs between New York and West Coast ports', American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. has asked the Federal Maritime Administration to approve expenditure of $115 million for ten 18-knot, 13,170-ton ships, each with a capacity of 570 trailers...
...Tipping, Please. In Wolverine, Mich., when Daniel Bullman parked his tractor-trailer on a hill and went into the Wolverine Hotel for a snack, the truck rolled downhill, crashed six feet into the lobby, added...