Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gesture would help Malaya's sagging rubber trade. Sale of rubber is still banned to Communist China, Hong Kong, Macao and Tibet. But there will be nothing to prevent Malayan rubber from finding its way from, say, Vladivostok via a Manchurian tire factory to a Chinese truck outside Dienbienphu...
...first Pulitzer in 1942. His second is for his cartoon on Stalin's death (see cut), CJ For news photography, Amateur Photographer Mrs. Walter M. Schau, first woman to win the prize. She was driving from her home in San Anselmo (Calif.), when she saw a truck about to fall from a bridge, managed to snap two remarkable pictures. One showed the driver scrambling up a rope to safety (TIME, May 15, 1953), while the other, a few seconds later, showed the cab of the truck crashing 70 ft. below...
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD is joining the trend to piggyback truck trailers (TIME, Sept. 21). In June the Pennsy will put 90 special, truck-carrying flatcars into service between New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago. It has ordered 200 more for August delivery...
Short Tractor. The smallest truck trac tor on the market (96 in. from bumper to back of cab) is rolling off production lines at the White Motor Co. in Cleve land. By canting the 200 h.p. diesel engine 20° to the right, White engineers have saved more than a foot of space, which can be used for cargo. Thus the new tractor can haul a 35-ft. trailer and still keep within the 45-ft. overall limit set by most states. Price of the new tractor...
Those who have ever seen a street sweeper's truck clanking around Cambridge at five in the morning know how archaic the machines are. If anyone could stay critical at that hour, there would probably be an outcry from a public used to watching their high powered servants perform at supersonic speeds. But the new speed fad hardly bothers the sweepers. They still prefer picking up the newspaper shreds of a high-charged world at the laconic pace of six miles an hour...