Word: trailering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mushroom Stem. In Goshen, Ind., Elkhart County Sheriff Woody Caton heard about a tornado on his police radio at home. He ran for his car and drove toward a trailer park directly in the twister's path. He got there just after the tornado passed over. "God, what a sight!" he reported. "It was an unbelievable mess. Ninety-two trailers had been completely leveled. Another dozen were upended. Trailers were ripped from their frames, squashed and twisted. Some were tossed onto the highway. Everyone I saw was covered with blood. There wasn't a thing left...
Nowadays, on the average of once every three weeks a tractor drags a bright yellow trailer onto the base; on the trailer lies a metallically glistening Atlas-Agena rocket, or a massive, white-painted Air Force Titan III, or a long-necked Thor-Delta...
Spidery Wires. The trailer backs up to the base of a gantry; cables are attached, and up comes the payload, trailer and all. When the bird is snugged into its red iron nest, the trailer is peeled off and trundled away. White tarpaulins drop over the missile's exposed side to keep off rain and the Cape's corrosive salt mists. Inside, casually competent engineers and technicians in white hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket...
...trailer as a temporary office in the middle of the community and has taken title to all the land. Many residents have refused to comply with an order that they pay rent...
Wachovia began to grow like Southern pine. It has since acquired twelve smaller banks through mergers, opened up 66 more branches (including four trailer-banks at new shopping centers), doubled its deposits and tripled its operating income. Today it has 89 branches in 31 North Carolina towns and cities from the Smokies to the sea. Last year Wachovia's earnings rose 18%, almost twice the national average for banks, to $8,900,000. Wachovia serves as banker to the tobacco industry, but it also does business as varied as $1,000,000 loans to textile manufacturers and $ 100 loans...