Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White cleared every scrap of paper out of his office, packed his goods in crates, and rode off in the truck that carried the crates. Eleven months later White was called to testify before the New York federal grand jury, which was investigating Communist infiltration. The jury did not indict him. That was 20 months before Chambers identified the pumpkin-paper memorandum in White's handwriting...
...Robert B. Carney and the Pacific Fleet's commanding Admiral Felix B. Stump, on their way to a reception for Carney at Pearl Harbor, proceeded in a style to which they are unaccustomed. Hitchhiker Carney arrived in a small British sports car, Stump in a half-ton pickup truck...
Finally last Tuesday it was over. Students thought that they could choose their own brand of music and platitude for at least a year. But apparently the sound truck idea had caught on, for Lamont still continued to echo occasionally to the blaring of music and speeches from organizations like the A.F. of L. or the Holy Cross student association...
Police admit that the addendum to their permission doesn't always have much effect. In fact, officers have had to silence trucks that were interrupting court proceedings. No one, as yet, has seen a policeman shooing a Councilman's truck away from the Square, and this is natural. If there were required registration for sound trucks, plus laws forbidding them access to such obvious places as hospitals and schools, the problem would be solved. Until then, students will live periodically shut off from nature by the closed windows that fruitlessly try to keep out the raucous strains of That...
...Truck Muffler. A muffler designed to cut down truck exhaust noises was brought out by GMC Truck & Coach Division. The new mufflers are larger, use heavier metal and larger exhaust pipes and have a reverse-flow system. They will be standard equipment on new GMC trucks...