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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Reluctant Swam | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a degree in chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Broccoli Kingdom | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Long Shot. In McAlester, Okla., police surveyed the results of a three-way traffic accident: a trailer truck and switching locomotive were badly banged up, the horse was unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Prerogative. In Birmingham, England, Judge Richard Hill Norris, denying a divorce to a truck driver's wife, ruled that it was neither cruel nor uncommon for a man to strike his wife on the street on Saturday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Truck drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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