Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle last week rolled out a new product, but it was no airplane. It was a 200-lb. gas-turbine engine which Boeing had installed in a ten-ton truck...
...times as heavy. The turbine needs no cooling system, runs at full power without any warming up, and operates on either gasoline, kerosene, light or heavy fuel oil or bottled gas. But its fuel consumption is still much higher than that of piston engines. Boeing has road-tested the truck for 200 miles, will spend the next few months hauling heavy freight in further tests. This summer, the company will put the same kind of engine in a small boat...
...group rented six 15-foot aluminum canoes in Cambridge, and used them for the actual travelling. For carrying duffles and portaging the canoes, however, it employed a small pick-up truck and a Jeep station wagon...
...same, still striding into his doorless office at 7:30 a.m. to get ready for his callers, still plumping loudly for bigger & better Michigan State teams ("I see no harm at all in a big stadium, big field house, and big crowds . . ."), still puttering about his two-acre truck garden when he can find the time. He had some additional building ideas too. With the new dormitory finished, he was pestering the state legislature to get $3,000,000 for a new library...
...play is usually given to such local news as murders, rapes and fires. One day last week, the Post carried no less than ten such Page One stories, ineluding: BEATINGS OF WAIFS CHARGED; WOMEN SAVE BLAZING MAN; 2 BOYS DROWN IN TRUCK CAB: MAN KILLED IN TRUCK CRASH; AUTO DRAGS CHILD OF THREE 200 YARDS ; and EXPECT INN DEATH...