Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were cordial towards the Frenchmen, and they expansively had Western newspapermen round to tea; but they would have no truck whatsoever with the Vietnamese. The Red MPs crisply presented their U.S.-made carbines whenever French officers passed by, but they would not salute the Vietnamese. And the French, bent on a settlement in Indo-China, were quick to snub the Vietnamese delegates in conference; they unquestioningly accepted such Communist terms as "People's Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" instead of the customary "Viet Minh"; they did not protest when the Communists spoke only of the "French Union command...
Over a meadow and into Barnau, a small German town hard by the Czechoslovak border, jounced a U.S. Army weapons carrier one evening last week, bearing seven off-duty medics of the 186th Field Artillery Batallion. On the main street the truck halted, while Captain Jack M. Davis cautiously asked townspeople about the exact location of the border; he was anxious not to wander over...
...disgusted manager of the team, whose father was a produce dealer, waived Riss to him. He put Riss to work selling a carload of ripe bananas before they spoiled. Riss not only turned in a profit but in a few months was in his own produce business, with a truck and a debt of $1,060. When he made back the $1,060 in 25 days by hauling fruit from orchards and farms, the town's leading produce dealer advised him to pay off the debt. Replied Riss: "No, sir. I'm going to expand and go into...
...Bigger. Riss & Co. now operates in 22 states and owns 27 truck terminals, nine of them built since the war. With its new equipment, it will have 1,650 trailers and 625 tractors. Boston operations are run from the largest privately owned terminal in the world. The Cleveland terminal sprawls over 50 acres. The freight house at the company's Kansas City headquarters, built five years ago to allow for future growth is already outgrown. On such heavily traveled routes as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a Riss truck passes on the average of once every twelve minutes, day and night...
Portable Power. International Harvester and General Electric teamed up to bring out a portable electric generator that can be installed on a tractor or truck to operate off the engine. "Electrall" will furnish electricity for power tools, insect sprays, paint guns, hay balers, pumps, emergency light and heat...