Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, French and Vietnamese truck convoys were rolling down alien roads toward the coast. The French were withdrawing from their blockhouses and redeploying, and the Communists were moving...
Baseball to Bananas. Since the trucking business was down in the first half of this year, the big truck order is a gamble. But Riss, an old poker-playing crony of Harry Truman, has had a long career of cashing in on his gambles. He got into trucking by way of semi-pro baseball. On the strength of a flashy tryout for a team at Colorado Springs, he was touted as a new sensation...
...months of negotiating, Tito's men haggled over a farmhouse here, a truck garden there, until they had won the cession of approximately a mile more territory than proposed in the Oct. 8 plan...
...mates always kidded young Jack Taylor. He was brash, he was illiterate, he could never keep a steady job. Yet he called himself an artist. A year ago, he was pushing a wheelbarrow on a building job in London's West End. The truck driver pointed at the nearby Redfern Gallery, and jeered at Jack: "You call yourself a painter. They buy paintings in that place...
...shows, but existing facilities were found to be inadequate, so George Weller agreed to write a new book. The theatrical group, however, was already beginning to be plagued with union expenses. The Pudding was charged $110 after privately transporting its scenery to New York. Union labor halted the Pudding truck outside its destination, the Mecca Temple, and presented the bill for carrying the sets inside, a distance of four feet...