Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goliaths in Hamburg four years ago, exhibited the larger and elder until he died, then brought forth his understudy, who by then weighed some 4.000 Ib. and was getting his growth. For two seasons spectators gaped at Goliath II as he was carried around the arena in a motor truck, snorting like thunder, gulping fat herring by the barrel...
...dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
...declared Clarence Birdseye and Gerald A. Fitzgerald of Gloucester, Mass. More than 100 food products are now frozen for market. Food, moving on endless belts, is swiftly turned to ice at 25° to 30° below zero Fahrenheit. There are mobile freezing machines which may be moved into truck gardens, orchards and berry patches. Among many "quick-freezing" problems are how to preserve taste, appearance and nutrition values upon defrosting. Donald Kiteley Tressler and William T. Murray of Gloucester have been trying to determine just how long to age beef in order to make a tender quick-frozen meat...
...remain intact. He once dropped a sheep and six eggs safely from 500 feet in a model of his ship (TIME, Dec. 14). Several times he tried to make the test himself but could not elude police until last week. Before undertaking his cliff dive he let a motor truck ram Amour with himself inside...
...Port of New York Authority, which operates the tunnel in addition to four interstate bridges, had trained its tunnel crew for just such an emergency. Red lights flashed. All traffic in the westbound tube was merged in one lane. Down the other in the opposite direction sped a wreck truck from the New Jersey entrance. Because all motor lights must be extinguished before entering the well-lit tunnel, the wrecking crew was not blinded by the glare of traffic. Quickly the smashed coupé was dragged out. Normal traffic was resumed in 20 minutes...