Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truck." Old Dictator Trujillo himself rarely stirs out of his rock-walled white palace; he is too busy planning his defense. Last week he called up 6,000 army reservists to build his active-duty force to 21,000 men (only half of them well trained). He put laborers to work building forts in the interior, sent reinforcements to the string of strongholds along the 193-mile Haitian frontier...
...Trujillo University Police." Bodies of the few remaining opposition lawyers, students and journalists began cluttering up the usually super-sanitary streets. El Caribe laconically reported that one lawyer was found with every bone in his body broken. "Rumor has it," said the paper, "that he was hit by a truck." Afraid of similar "accidents," 14 refugees scuttled to sanctuary in the Venezuelan embassy...
HELMSTEDT, Germany, Feb. 4--Under sharp attack by the United States, Soviet authorities yesterday turned loose a U.S. Army truck convoy they had held in East Germany for 53 hours...
...four-truck convoy and its five grim soldiers rolled into West Germany, past the checkpoint on the border between East and West Germany...
...White company was on its last legs in 1935 when the stockholders brought Black in to save it. Black's first accomplishment was to bring out, in 1937, the first light, fast truck motor that gave the truck industry the kind of power needed for modern, swift intercity traffic. White again turned the industry on its hubcap by tucking the truck motor under the cab seat. This cut 1 ft. off the cab length, substantially increasing the loading space. To answer the industry's need for an easily serviced engine, White made cabs that would tilt forward, exposing...