Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week, executives of Reo Motors, Inc. of Lansing, Mich, thought that the U.S. Post Office Department was going to advertise their trucks as openly as Songwriters Vincent Bryan and Gus Edwards once publicized the Oldsmobile.* The design for a special commemorative stamp, planned to memorialize the 50th anniversary of the U.S. trucking industry, turned out to feature the modified but unmistakable outlines of a Reo truck, 1949 model, driven by a smiling trucker...
Last week Postmaster Summerfield, an old Chevrolet dealer, ordered a quick design change in-the truck on the stamp (happily, no stamps had yet been printed). The new truck: "A composite...
...name. It's just hard for her. Goodbye, Arlie, God bless you and good luck. Father: Son, I don't see what in the world is the matter with you if you don't come on home here. Here I'm letting Ronald take the truck and take mommy to town to the doctor. My Lord, she's needing you bad here. You could be with her and you could drive the truck and take her to town to the doctor whenever she needs you, my Lord, she needs you bad, needs you awful...
...Need It. As the years passed, Marc repeated his "joke" again and again until some of his friends got bored with it. He even made arrangements with the undertaker for his burial in the family vault. The fish merchant took him for a ride on his lurching truck one day and tried to warn him: "Your soul will be eternally damned," but Marc only answered, "I must do what I must...
...aluminum trailer truck rumbled into Fredericksburg, Va. one day this week and parked near an elementary school. Outside it looked like any ordinary truck, but the inside was unusual: it contained a small, well-stocked art gallery. The truck was Virginia's new "artmobile," the U.S.'s first art gallery on wheels. Its purpose: to bring great art to people who ordinarily never set foot inside a museum...