Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Help Me!" Mack Charles Parker, 23, a truck driver scheduled to go on trial in a few days for the rape of a 24-year-old white woman last February, leaped from his bunk, pulled on his pants, made for the shower. For a moment the men fumbled with the key, then opened the cell door and rushed in. "Get him! Get him!" one man snarled. They swarmed all over...
...steel production, which last week was the largest in history. U.S. mills, operating at 93.5% capacity, produced 2,647,000 net tons of steel. And many a sign points to the steel boom as being more than mere strike hedging. Steel's key customers, U.S. auto and truck manufacturers, last week scheduled their best performance of the year. Auto output neared the 2,000,000 mark, 34.7% ahead of last year, and truck production was 36.8% ahead of the same period a year ago. Brisk April buying has firmed industry hopes for a 6,000,000-car year (including...
...Andros Island, Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish tycoon (Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Bofors guns), has sunk $11 million in a long-range resort-and-home-building project. On the northern end of Andros, Parker Pen Co. Chairman Kenneth S. Parker is developing 8,500 acres of building and truck-gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach...
...Intercity truck tonnage in the same week was 18% higher than a year earlier and 1.2% over the previous week...
Mobile Lounge. For air travelers who would rather ride than walk those last few feet to the plane, Washington's new Chantilly Airport (completion date: 1961) plans something called "mobile departure lounges." Conceived by Architect Eero Saarinen, the lounge is a 15-ft.-by- 60.-ft. truck with upholstered seats; passengers climb aboard to wait until the plane is ready, are then hauled out to the ramp, where the lounge fastens to the plane's entrance door. Nobody has to move a muscle, though it could be dull...