Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...printing plants in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles were to go to the most distant points by special airlift. For example, copies for Spokane would leave the Chicago plant at 9 p.m., arrive in Spokane via Northwest Airlines plane at 9:44 a.m. Thursday, be sped by special truck to newsstand distribution centers, and go on sale at the newsstands before noon...
With speeded distribution by plane, train and special truck, few of you should suffer more than a slight delay in receiving this election issue...
...This is an Office of Civilian Defense sound truck," he cried into the mike. "Unidentified airplanes approaching New York City. All residents black out. Prepare for atomic attack!" Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound. The windows of the Gordons' third-floor apartment-like those of most of the apartments around it-were open. The results of his announcement on the teeming Bronx exceeded Stanley's fondest expectations...
...Southwest China, the campaign was begun a year ago with drilling of troops in mountain warfare and of party commissars in the Tibetan tongue and customs. On Oct. 7 the advance got under way. Each soldier carried 100 lbs. of arms and rice. Other supplies were loaded on truck and yak caravans. Pontoon bridges were laid across treacherously rapid rivers...
Head Drillmaster Gordon D. Henderson '51 said last night that band members did not discover the rain's damage until drill practice Wednesday. Soon after, the Band's truck carried to repair shops 15 clarinets with cracked necks, four tubas with rusted valves, three snare drums and one bass drum with broken cowhides, and several damaged saxophones and piccolos...