Word: trailerized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy ruby-glass ashtray flew off a desk and sprayed shards over the floor. Outside, both panes of a mock-up storefront were smashed, a glass window in a trailer caved in, and 16 out of 90 panes in a small greenhouse were shattered. The plane had come in at about 650 m.p.h., just over the speed of sound. Distressed FAA officials estimated the overpressure at 25 Ibs. to 40 Ibs. per square foot, but there was no way to be sure; they had already turned off their test equipment. What was scientifically certain was that a big enough boom...
...conditioned models command $16,000; 12-ft.-wide units now account for 21% of industry sales v. 7% last year. Many of the nation's 20,231 mobile-home parks match such amenities with pools and golf courses. "We were uneasy when we invited Jascha Heifetz to our trailer for a weekend visit," says Mrs. Raymond Kendall, wife of the dean of music at the University of Southern California, "but he had such a good time he invited himself back." For the Kendalls, their oceanside unit an hour's drive from Los Angeles is a second home...
...their original elegance dozens of 18th century row houses that had most recently been seedy boardinghouses. To the southwest, work began on a new shopping center at Eastwick, a 2,508-acre city-within-a-city that is rising in what was recently a wasteland of marshes, junkyards, trailer camps and crumbling shacks...
...inherited from his famous great-grand-daddy, Man O' War. Valenzuela sensed it: "Suddenly, he was the old Kelso again. Suddenly, I knew we were home." So did the fans. "It started way back there on the backstretch," said Jockey John Rotz, who was riding a distant trailer. "That racket-I never heard anything like...
...begins to build. Bulldozers and steamrollers emerge like nocturnal predators; the smell of hot tar and the chatter of jackhammers shatter the night. In Shinjuku, Tokyo's Greenwich Village, and along the Ginza, an army of orangehelmeted workmen swarms out to remove temporary planks covering the streets, while trailer trucks roar up to dump fuming loads of fill into yawning caverns. Thousands of lights sway in the evening breeze, sending crooked shadows under the neon. At dawn, the trucks and workers disappear like cockroaches. Then the city's kamikaze cab drivers emerge and proudly tell their fares...