Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking care not to nick her big, flat hat, Esperanza Wayne, estranged wife of Cinemactor John Wayne, poked her head out the window of her pickup truck in a fetching demonstration of woe. The truck, used for hauling garbage and dirt about her Encino, Calif, home, "is my only transportation," she wailed. Her Cadillac had been attached for bills run up since she and Wayne parted last year. Esperanza was asking the superior court for $9,000 a month to live on, instead of the $1,100 temporary alimony granted her pending their divorce trial next October...
Almost all state officials who have investigated the matter agree that the trucking industry is not paying its fair share of highway costs. Scientific highway tests have proved that huge trailer trucks do far more damage to U.S. roads-and hence make it necessary to build heavier, more expensive roadbeds-than the more numerous passenger cars. And the possibilities of road damage increase far faster than the increase in truck weight; e.g., tests showed that a 22,400-10. axle load caused 6.4 times as much road cracking as an 18,000-lb load. A recent New York State study...
...Korean language is difficult, and the G.I. did not have the time and energy to pick up more than a few words. So he learned about the Koreans from what he saw, and through the Pidgin English the Koreans themselves put together. In the back of a truck, choking on the fine, powdery Korean dust, wondering how the Koreans could live in it, he suddenly saw a Korean coughing too, and he realized that the armies had stirred up the dust and the Koreans suffered from it "same-same...
...homesick the minute he hit Korea. Around the sputtering Coleman lanterns in the bunker, on the long, dusty truck rides that bruised his bones, he talked of "The Big R" (rotation) and "The Little R" (rest and rehabilitation leave in Japan). He knew to the day when he could expect to go home -"if too much stuff doesn't hit the fan and use up all the replacements," or if the brass didn't "push the panic button" and freeze rotation for a while...
Harem-Scarem. In Indianapolis, Truck Driver George D. Lewis was arrested after Mrs. Ellouise Lewis and Mrs. Mildred Laverne Lewis announced that he not only married them both, but insisted that they live together after they found out about...