Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type of TV camera which RCA put on sale last week. The camera picked up the boxcar numbers, flashed them on a screen in the yard's four-story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though the equipment will continue to be tested for operation in snow and sleet conditions B. & O. already pronounced it "ideal for watching yard operations-especially blind spots and ends of yards distant from the yardmaster's office." The biggest appeal...
...Fort Lee, Va., where she is making a movie on life in the WAC. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell misjudged her timing in boarding a fast-moving truck and ended up in the infirmary with 17 stitches in her right leg. Said she: "If the accident leaves any scars, I can at least say I got them in the Army...
This week, Sponsor Ralston Purina Co. signed a new five-year contract for both the TV show and its radio counterpart (Saturday, 10:30 a.m., ABC). Ralston also has built a 35-ft., $30,000 Space Patrol rocket ship that is now touring the U.S., on a truck trailer, for the edification of the show's young fans...
Near San Gabriel, Calif., old Athlete Jim Thorpe, 64, fell asleep and woke up with a broken nose and a bruised face when the truck in which he was riding rammed into the rear of a state highway vehicle...
...pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known artist. "Talent and ideas," says Gubler, "are nothing. The job is to paint what you have seen and what you feel in the only way those things can be expressed." That timeless credo has no truck with fashion...