Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Pepper (who said bitterly that Smathers had "stabbed me in the back") was campaigning just as hard. Smathers' sound truck played Dixie at every crossroads; so did Pepper's. The Senator cried that his opponent was a tool of the rich in general and of the Du Pont interests in particular. And to win favor with Florida's numerous old folks, Pepper backed the Townsend Plan, lock, stock & barrel...
...make shoelaces, but it made "Bevo" (an unfermented, nonalcoholic drink that was supposed to taste like beer), near-beer, ginger ale, Grape Bouquet, root beer, "Kaffo" (a syrup for iced coffee), Busch "Tee," Carcho (a chocolate drink), starch, dextrine, corn products, malt syrup (for home brewing), and even refrigerator truck bodies and ice cream freezing units. In the end, it was yeast that pulled the company through, and today its yeast production is second only to that of Standard Brand's Fleischmann...
...railroadmen, who have long complained about "unfair" competition from trucks, sat back and applauded last week as the truckers got a roundhouse swing from a not-so-neutral corner. Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Vice President Andrew H. Phelps called the truckers' use of public highways "transportation by taxation," warned that truck lines "can ruin but not replace rail service." From now on, said Phelps, Westinghouse, which spends $40 million a year on transportation, will always ship by rail except when the truckers offer bargains in rates which the rails decline to meet. One probable reason for the announcement...
Early each morning, the Service's lone truck picks up all mail for Harvard, except student mail and letters with no more explicit address than "Harvard"; these are sent to Weld Hall for further interpretation. The mail is already sorted by buildings at the Post Office, and Greene's office integrates the mailbags into seven piles, for delivery to seven sub-stations located around the outskirts of the Harvard territory...
...people left behind. The Red loudspeakers went into action, blaring that the heartless Western powers were breaking an agreement and were cruelly refusing admission to the refugees. The Communists produced some special cases they had been saving: a paralyzed woman who had been hidden in a press radio truck, a blind woman, a father who had searched all over