Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave the building, there was no waiting car. His pilot, Lieut. Colonel Anthony Story, asked a civilian behind the wheel of a battered jeep: Would he give General MacArthur a ride? Said the driver, glumly: "Well, if it's an order ..." Finally, the colonel flagged a CAA pickup truck; MacArthur and the pilot bumped...
...Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis called for an air strike to relieve the pressure on his men. The U.S. planes came over, hit the wrong target, and had to be redirected. At this crucial moment Osborne glanced at Michaelis. He was standing, bareheaded, in the street by the radio truck, reading TIME...
...paid no attention to his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats of being naive about Communists...
Able to process the blood of 200 donors--200 pints--in a 12-hour day, the truck is the forerunner of a fleet which will bring blood collection units right up to the home...
...machinery inside the truck is able to separate out of the whole blood many fractions never before available. As the blood can be rushed right from the donor into the machines, the blood will preserve its utmost potency...