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Word: truck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power plant Yale police arrested a picket captain in the weekend's only near outbreak of violence. The captain attempted to halt the passage through the picket lines of an oil truck. When he resisted a police order to permit the truck to pass, a momentary struggle between pickets and police broke out but quieted with the captain's arrest. Last night he was out on $100 ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWU Offers Assistance to Union In Wage Fight at Strike-Bound Yale | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...managing men and expediting production. Farmborn, and still vaguely rustic despite Harvard ('28) and a high standard of living, he worked up to the presidency of Harry Ferguson, Inc. (tractors and farm implements), then moved to General Motors, became a vice president and the general manager of the Truck and Coach Division. When G.M. President Erwin Wilson was tabbed as Defense Secretary, he asked Kyes to be his No. 2 man. Kyes gave up his $85,000 salary (plus large bonuses), sold $200,000 worth of G.M. stock. When he learned that his new job would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jolly Roger | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Three students narrowly escaped injury yesterday afternoon near Central Square when a ten ton trailer truck demolished their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Students Hurt In Square Auto Crash | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

...three crashed into the truck at the corner of Franklin and Magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Students Hurt In Square Auto Crash | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

Dragon's Break. Entering the chamber during a debate on denationalization of truck transport, Churchill heard Acting Opposition Leader Herbert Morrison saying: "There is no hurry about this bill; in fact, it would be a good thing if it were never passed at all." Churchill rose to the fray. Standing with his feet apart, dimpled hands on the dispatch box, his face flushed a winy pink, he said: "The Right Hon. Gentleman is a master of the art of trying to have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sir Winston & the Dragons | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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