Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were sirens at the end of the street and a truck bearing a replica of the State House came down Broadway. On the back of the truck, shouting into a microphone, was Roger A. Moore '53, patriarch of the Harvard Young Republican Club. He was extolling the virtues of Senator Nixon. The Senator, along with his wife and state Republican moguls, followed the State House to the speaker's platform in a lush new convertible...
...agreed to tap his line with a $17 million refinery in Florence, Ariz, capable of processing 15,000 bbls. of crude a day. Glasco hopes to slash petroleum costs in Arizona drastically; they are now among the highest in the U.S., since every drop must be brought in by truck or railroad...
Plastic Dies. In Detroit, Chrysler Corp. began experimental use of plastic instead of steel dies to make truck panels. The plastic dies, roughly 75% cheaper than steel, can be used on an ordinary 1,000-ton press, weigh only one-fourth as much as steel dies, can be made in three or four weeks compared to 14 to 16 weeks for comparable steel ones...
With A.S.D.E., the International tower will be able to follow planes right up to the unloading point, avoid the danger of collision on the ground. The only complaint so far is that the new radar is a little too sharp-sighted. Recently a truck was sent out to investigate what looked like a dangerous obstacle. It proved to be a fringe of grass that had poked up a few inches through a crack in a runway...
...gallon jugs, moonshine sells in cities for about $2 a fifth. The deliveries are made by a new breed of rumrunner, drivers of souped-up cars which can hit 100 m.p.h. All but the amateurs equip them with truck springs in the rear to eliminate the telltale sag caused by heavy loads. The average fee for transportation is around $1.00 a gallon. Sold undiluted at the still for $4 a gallon, the juice still leaves the moonshiner with an operating profit of 200% or more...