Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corridor Clamor. Joe was not without friends, however, and the next day they began arriving in Washington. From McCarthy's own Wisconsin came a pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From New York came a trainload of Mc-Carthyites headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, whose slogan is: "Strike terror into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov." One man wore a white suit and brandished a butterfly net, aping Joe's suggestion that...
...miles to River Forest, near Chicago. In his hospital room the iron lung was unplugged from the power supply and whisked to the ground floor. The lung was plugged in again to let Fred get his breath, then out again as he was rolled onto a waiting truck with a gasoline generator chugging. The off-on routine was repeated at the station, where a special train waited (with a generator in a baggage car), and at Shanghai, where attendants transferred Fred to a waiting iron lung aboard the President Coolidge...
...MOTORS, INC., which has been having trouble with its truck business, will not be sold to Hearsemaker Henney Motor under the deal originally signed last April (TIME, April 12). Henney has turned the deal over to Detroit's Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., which will buy Reo, continue to operate and expand it as a truck builder...
PIGGYBACK TRANSPORT of truck trailers on railroad flatcars is working so well that Santa Fe and Chicago & North Western, which previously offered only limited service, will expand it greatly. Santa Fe is adding a Chicago-Kansas City run and a Los Angeles-San Diego service; Chicago & North Western will extend its Chicago-Milwaukee run to Minneapolis...
...right about everything he is, too." "Yeh," replied the uniform, "they shoulda hired out the Garden, look at the mob." The crowd of a thousand strung all the way to the Bay Street Beef Co. sign down the street. To satisfy the overflow a sound truck lumbered into position with the tinkling of the piano music inside drifting from its microphones...