Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post Reporter Robert Fenwick, masquerading in chaps and ten-gallon hat. To amused Governor J. Bracken Lee he presented one silver spur and an invitation to come to Denver to pick up the other one. Twelve times during the month Cowboy Fenwick and his pony (carted around in a truck) repeated the stunt at other state capitols in what Post Editor and Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt likes to call the "Rocky Mountain Empire...
...oldtime Wobbly or an oldtime "bull o' the woods" lurching off to consult an oculist-or a bartender. The steam donkey, the logging locomotive, the oldtime logging camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses or in their own cars...
...which he can figure in a trice the dealer's profit on any given number of Coca-Cola bottles, personally puts up Coke advertising ("don't leave your sign for the dealer to put up-he might give it away to one of his friends"), keeps his truck in perfect order and drives carefully. Curves must be taken smoothly so that Coke cases won't slide off; pedestrians must not be frightened, much less injured-they are all potential Coke customers...
...minutes before 8, dark, heavy-set Giovanni Pretti, 30, had put on his tan & red uniform and cast a last look into the mirror from which signs asked him: "Hair Combed? Shaved? Uniform Clean and Neat? Shoes Shined? Friendly Smile?" He lovingly polished his brand-new Bianchi truck (one of 62 now covering Milan) and climbed into his seat...
...Springfield, Ohio one night, two pledges of the Wittenberg College chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, exhausted after two sleepless-nights of initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...