Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stay Humble. As high-keyed as a racehorse. Graham spends himself prodigally in God's service, but he takes good care of himself, too. eating four or five meals a day to keep up his strength, keeping a trailer at the stadium in New Orleans so he can change his sweat-drenched clothes each night immediately after speaking. He plays as much golf as he has time for (seldom more than nine holes, at an average 45 ). Almost obsessively clean (he takes three baths or showers on a busy day, has manicures to curb his nail-biting) and almost...
...drilled all the holes for hardware in ten seconds; machines automatically sprayed a first coat of paint onto small pieces of wood, then other machines sanded them down for a second coat. In exactly one hour, House No. 66,657 was ready to be loaded aboard a waiting trailer, along with bathtub, water heater, cabinets, sinks, etc. By next evening it was erected at an Ohio site 325 miles away. This week it will be ready for occupancy, with landscaping completed...
...money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...
Dragnet (Warner) is the second major television show-I Love Lucy led the way with The Long, Long Trailer (TIME, Feb. 22 )-to make the tricky segue from the electronic to the silver screen. The transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in the parlor gets lost in the movie house (e.g., the staccato monotone, urgent and effective when the actor is only ten inches high and has to exaggerate plenty to get attention, is just a meaningless affectation when he is 20 feet tall...
...fifth largest in terms of total operating revenues ($29,114,678). Last week Riss made his bid to become stronger than ever. He began to take delivery on one of the largest private-equipment orders in the history of trucking-$14 million worth of tractors and trailers from General Motors, Fruehauf Trailer and Strick...