Word: truck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Truce Table: The only news was that a North Korean officer and two Communist soldiers arranged their personal cease-fire by deserting to the Americans. One of the Chinese came rattling through the truce zone at 50 m.p.h. in a Russian truck. Said Lieut. General William K. Harrison, chief U.N. negotiator: "We don't mind if they want to come through our place, but at least they ought to stay within our speed limits...
...show up as black bands outlined by radar reflections from the knee-high grass that grows on their margins. Airplanes moving along them are not mere shapeless blobs; they are sharply defined bright bars, and experienced radarmen can even tell one type of plane from another. A car or truck shows up as a smaller rectangle, and a man who steps out of one shows as a bright dot. Any obstacle on a runway, such as a misguided truck or a disabled airplane, is spotted at a glance...
Dress Rehearsal. In Bristol, Pa., Fire Chief Clifford Hagerman was inspecting a fire box when he accidentally set off an alarm, was on hand, red-faced, when 20 firemen in three pumpers and one ladder truck screamed to the scene...
Something Wrong. In Chicago, Robert Whitfield and Douglas Henderson painted a truck yellow to look like a city vehicle, loaded two tons of city-owned steel pipe in a municipal construction yard until detectives became suspicious "because they were working so hard...
...days after the thefts occurred, a Cambridge resident saw two men transferring lead to trucks, and reported the registration of one truck to police, who subsequently arrested the driver. He and another man, police stated, sold the lead for $60. All lead was found later and returned...