Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both houses passed and sent to the President a tax bill that extends corporate income taxes and excises at present levels, generally in line with the Administration's hold-the-line policy against tax cuts. Single exception: repeal of federal taxes on air, truck, railroad and other freight transportation, a compromise to head off the Senate's demand for a repeal of a broad range of transportation taxes (TIME, June...
...cincture to its towers, menaced a thousand rubbish-strewn, treeless streets. Subway passengers broiled; Broadway theaters and side-street restaurants hung "Delightfully Air Conditioned" banners or closed for the season. The greenery-edged hem of the metropolis echoed to domestic sounds -the whir of lawnmowers, the jingling ice-cream-truck bells, the clink of beer glasses, shrieks of splashing children in backyard wading pools...
...Foreign Ministry to demand additional police protection. Sure enough, two hours later, another 2,000 Muscovites turned up before the ten-story U.S. embassy building. This time, however, the "rioters" contented themselves with waving placards and gentle shouts of "fascists" and "dogs." When one youth climbed aboard a passing truck and began to distribute its cargo of bricks among the demonstrators, a policeman intervened, insisted that every brick be returned. The Moscow papers, after all, had made no mention of any broken windows in New York...
...kidnaping the engineers, the rebels also stole 19 vehicles, including a gasoline-tank truck, loaded them with food and medical supplies. Before they left, one of the rebels turned to the wife of one of the engineers, said: "They'll be treated well and returned in a few days." He said the reasons for the kidnaping were U.S. support of the Batista regime in general and the refueling of Cuban military planes at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay in particular...
...happens to have the cafeteria concession in the new State Office Building. Modeled after the State Capitol, the 48-layer, 4½-ft-tall goody measured 22 ft. in perimeter, weighed 650 Ibs., required 500 eggs, 90 Ibs. of butter, 120 Ibs. of sugar, was hauled to Detroit by truck in six sections. Sharing the buttercream mess with some 4,000 guests, the Governor paid his pretty wife the obvious, ultimate compliment: "I think she deserves every...