Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truck Traffic. The seven-mile tunnel, to be finished in three years, will give Europe its first satisfactory truck route to link the industrial complexes of Italy with France, Germany and the Low Countries. Truck traffic over the Alps now takes a road full of steep grades and blocked seven to eight months out of twelve by snow. An alternative all-year route along the Mediterranean is shunned by truckers as hilly and hairpinnish. For tourists, the new tunnel will shorten the present Paris-Rome trip by 85 miles and many low-geared climbing hours...
After the war there was a return to fundamental research, and out of it, in October 1950, Cohn came up with his first mobile blood fractionation plant that could go to the donors. It was housed in a 32-foot trailer-truck so this refrigerated lab could go along with Red Cross Bloodmibiles processing could start within a few moments after collection. By November the truck was rendered obsolete by the development of the newer methods...
...hundred and ten out-of-state plates appear on the police roster--cars which have already drawn unanswered traffic tickets, and are now fair game for the tow truck. The losers come from 29 states and Hawaii; record for torn-up tickets is held by the owner of a New York car which has piled up eight violations...
...hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot ran into his jeep and dropped its biggest prize on the general's neck. The mishap put him in the hospital for weeks and out of active fighting for good, but Templer soon talked his way into other jobs just as suited to his toughness...
...Truck Driver Michael Sinai of West Mifflin was waiting for a mild day this week to load his wife and children into the family car and drive around the western Pennsylvania countryside. They were hoping to run across the smell of skunk. To Andrea Sinai, 8, this was very important. She has never smelled a skunk-in fact, until recently, she had never smelled anything. Andrea was a rare medical case, a baby born with a bony obstruction blocking both nostrils...