Word: truck
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...energy laboratories, the biggest gaseous diffusion plant (for the separation of uranium isotopes), and is in the world center of the production and study of tracer atoms. Its museum, complete with artificial lightning and Geiger counters, is host to hundreds of students a year. Its special exhibits travel by truck to schools and fairs from Florida to Oregon...
...Specialists. Krilium has been tested by many agricultural experiment stations, truck farmers and greenhouse operators. The results are still preliminary, but look good. Crop yields have been increased by 20% to 100%. No Krilium is for sale at present. When it does go on the market, in a year or so, it will cost "something under $2 per Ib." At this price only highly specialized farmers will be able to afford it. If applied to the top three inches of soil at the lowest claimed concentration (.02%), about 200 Ibs. will be needed to treat one acre. Monsanto believes that...
...Monongahela, Pa., Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Loutitt, close by their radio, kept the long vigil that mothers & fathers were keeping everywhere. "We just sat there and listened," said Mrs. Loutitt. "We hoped and we prayed, because all we knew was that Charles was missing and the truck he had been driving was found full of bullet holes. Then we heard his name...
...Sound of Water. When he got back from the north part of Taejon, Dean found himself cut off. He also found some men taking shelter from Red fire under a truck. They wanted to surrender, but Dean persuaded them to make a break for it. All could walk except one man. Exhausted and thirsty, Dean and another man took turns carrying him. When Dean heard the sound of running water by the road, he tried to find it, fell down a steep bank, hurt his shoulder, lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was alone...
...Blonde. But for all these heavy mortgages, Hope and his five writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...