Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admitted that at least 20 million dog lovers might appreciate this picture, but the other moviegoers are going to be sadly disappointed with the gooey sentiment, the stark horror, and naggingly reminiscent tunes. I hope you don't get run over by the Brinks truck as it leaves the box office for the bank...
...next 30 years by a $21 billion special bond issue ("Bonds for Boulevards," scoffed congressional Democrats). Then the House turned to the plan sponsored by its own Democratic leadership, under which $24 billion would have been spent in 13 years, financed by road-tax increases, on gasoline, diesel fuel, truck tires, etc. Against this bill stood the American Trucking Associations, Inc. and its network of state organizations. The A.T.A. threw only three lobbyists into the fight on Capitol Hill, but its state units had alerted individual trucking lines, large and small. From the truckers themselves came a storm of telephone...
...week scratched out a note to ailing Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.: "Dear Lyndon: I am sitting on my little farm recuperating from bronchial pneumonia. They are making hay out here. But now the tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle of the driveway, and my farmer has lacerated his arm on a hay hook. Besides, it is hot. I think I will just go back to bed, cough for a while, and take...
...deliverymen's costs. New York's movie and theater owners estimate that they lose $30 million worth of business every year because patrons cannot find places to park. Because of Manhattan's jammed curbs, double parking and choked streets, a dairy-route man in a modern truck delivers only 25 cases of milk daily, about 60% of what a route man with a horse and wagon could handle 25 years...
...small farming districts. Deep wells supported a slowly growing population, clustered along well-traveled desert highways in a few centers-Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Barstow. In the mountains, miners hammered away at sun-baked mineral vaults, and on the sandy desert floor men learned to irrigate and raise truck crops, cotton, dates and citrus trees...