Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well last week at the Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Detroit, the biggest U.S. manufacturer of truck-trailers (1953 sales: some $200 million). President Roy Fruehauf, 45, and his brother Harvey, 60, the company's founder and board chairman (at an estimated $150,000 a year) had had a falling out and were battling for control of the company...
...Cuba (and his 25 cats) last year to revisit Africa after a lapse of two decades, he traveled by steamship. To reach a base camp on the rolling plains of British East Africa, the husky author and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, bumped painfully through rough country by truck...
FREIGHT rates will be cut again this year by railroads to fight heavier truck competition and to attempt to stop a steady decline in car loadings. Starting in March, Eastern roads will put through an 18% to 20% reduction on all shipments of iron and steel within the area, will probably extend the cuts to other major products before the year...
...riot broke out after two nearby high schools were dismissed Friday afternoon when someone threw a snowball and used the window of a fish truck on dormitory-lined Elm St., the scene of Yale's 1952 "ice cream" disturbance...
...leafed aimlessly through the list of sightseeing tours. Through the window of his fifth-floor room he could hear a passing sound truck blare a ragged "God rest ye Merrie Gentlemen." It was Christmas in Boston, and Vag was above with nothing to do. And them, as if in answer to his prayers, an advertisement caught his eye. "Tour number 2, educational, Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe, Boston University, Simmons . . ." This is it, Vag murmured, enthused already. He could join in the Boston Christmas spirit and get educated to boot...