Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's Union Square, barricaded by police, a crowd of 5,000 took its cue from prompters on a sound truck, wept through the time of electrocution, sang Go Down, Moses, abused President Eisenhower as "bloodthirsty," shouted a pledge to carry on the work of the Rosenbergs until "we have created a world of peace and beauty...
...night, the Soviet occupiers began to round up rioters and ringleaders-or those they accused of being one or the other. Before dawn, a Soviet firing squad marched on to a field not far from the Brandenburg Gate and shot down the first of them, an unemployed West Berlin truck driver named Willi Goettling. His wife swore he had nothing to do with the uprising...
Starting from Alpha. Around Athens, Bodo Athanassiades is known to his friends as the man who made five fortunes and lost four. His enemies add a footnote; he has made his fortunes by nimbly hopping to the right political side at the right time. The son of a poor truck farmer who lived in Turkey, Bodo attended school for only a few months at the age of nine. Later he taught himself to read and write (and to speak four languages). He developed an eye for a quick profit at an early age, while driving a donkey to market carrying...
Moving Salesroom. Trans World Airlines opened mobile ticket offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In each city, a truck, equipped with reservation counter, upholstered benches and two-way radiotelephone, travels on a fixed route, offering information, reservations and tickets...
...competition with truckers in hauling fresh fruit from the West Coast, set a new record for California-to-Chicago freight trains on its maiden run last week. Train No. 62 hauled 18 refrigerated carloads of American Beauty plums to McCook, Ill. in 61½ hours, compared to the average truck time of about 96 hours...