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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxes and fees per ton to move his car over 100 miles of open road." Thus, on a national basis, a Plymouth owner pays nearly three times more per ton to move one ton of his car 100 miles than does the owner of a 60,000-lb. truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Trucks on the Roads | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...Further research would have shown the truckers exactly what former Governor Smith did deny. He denied telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Missouri legislators had received money from truck lobbyists. But he did tell a legislative investigating committee that he understood from others that money had changed hands to defeat a bill to increase truck license fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Trucks on the Roads | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...have been attacked as too young for office. Quirino didn't ask my age when he asked me to clean up Huks . . . They have attacked me because I was once a mechanic and truck driver. That's not an insult to me but an insult to 19 million humble Filipinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Mambo, Mambo | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...Lilburn had no truck with the Evil

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark & Bloody Ground | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...after stealing $430 from a parked truck, Horace C. Turner was pursued and captured by the truck's owner and several bystanders, admitted his guilt, but suddenly discovered that one of the bystanders had made off with the loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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