Word: truck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Increased state aid to school districts. CJ Launched a broad road-improvement program, which includes enforcing truck weight limits, a higher gasoline tax and higher truck license fees to pay construction costs...
...anything against the Dominicans. Ever since monks of the order founded their monastery in 1858, the farm folk had grown more & more fond of them. To Huissen's sandy soil the Dominicans brought vines and seedlings, and they persuaded the peasants to change from tobacco growing to truck farming. To Huissen's people they brought what seemed to be a wiser, less worldly understanding of the secrets of the confessional. Even those who still went to Mass at one of Huissen's two parish churches began to bring their sins to the Dominican fathers...
...Workers. On the highway southeast of Augusta, Ga., houses are being towed by truck out of the 315 square miles of rundown farmland that must be depopulated. Near the perimeter of the project, 22 miles across, are woods full of trailers. Already there are more than 21,000 workers on the project, and the labor force is expected to peak...
...morning of July 1, 1949, three men from the Los Angeles County sheriff's office broke into the home of Antonio Rochin, a 22-year-old truck driver whom they suspected of carrying narcotics. Before they could stop him, Rochin swallowed the only evidence against him-two morphine capsules. The deputies choked him and pummeled him, trying unsuccessfully to make him cough them up. Then they dragged him to a hospital, forced him on to an operating table, where a doctor "pumped" out his stomach to get the evidence. The judge gave him 60 days...
...When the switch is completed in March, Southern will have 847 diesels. DeButts now plans to turn his efforts toward modernizing yards and streamlining freight handling. Says he: "Every time a train enters an old-fashioned yard, before it can get out on the line again, the average competing truck has made a couple of hundred miles on the highway...