Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the trout-filled Madison River winds away from Hebgen Lake. Near the canyon mouth, seven miles below the Montana Power Co.'s 87-ft.-high dam, Purley R. Bennett, a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho truck driver, and his wife Irene had gone to sleep in their trailer. Outside, their three sons and daughter were rolled up in sleeping bags on the ground. At 11:30 p.m. an "indescribable" roar woke them all. What followed would never be forgotten-by those who lived through...
...vote. That same day he telephoned union leaders in each swing man's home district, urged protests against the Congressman's "betrayal" of labor. Commanding one A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworker official to put the heat on a New Jersey Congressman, Zagri spoke like a crusader on a trailer-truck parking lot: "Get a delegation down here tomorrow morning and tear his door down." He provided his agents with sample form letters to send in, urged wires, calls and protest meetings, brought non-Teamster unionists to Washington to badger Congressmen, and did most of the talking...
...TEAMSTER BOSS Dave Beck was indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...
...Hilary's need for affection overcomes even her terror of the "Devil." When she meets him again in a field beyond the Downs, she smiles in welcome and he invites her to his trailer. The last part of Novelist Bawden's melodrama is dominated by the cliffhanging question of what will happen to Hilary in that trailer...
...reason for Black's confidence in rising sales was delivered to the trucking industry this month. It was a fiber-glass cab, first in the industry, which is designed to cut 1,000 Ibs. to 1,500 Ibs. from the total weight of a tractor-trailer combination, permitting truckers to raise their payload correspondingly...