Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little town of Calipatria (pop. 2,500), a cluster of small stores and business buildings surrounded by the truck farms of California's broiling Imperial Valley, has always had one claim to fame: it is located 184 ft. below sea level, and fondly calls itself "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere." Last week Calipatria got a raise in stature, if not elevation, as it demonstrated how far the Imperial Valley has come since the old days-and Pearl Harbor days-when inflamed feelings against Japanese settlers brought persecution and bloodshed...
...Clary Jr. ruled that the railroads violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by engaging in "one large, ever-growing conspiracy" to destroy the competition of long-haul trucks. He awarded only nominal damages of 18? each to 37 trucking companies, but said he would award additional damages plus attorneys' fees and court costs to the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. He invited the truckers to draw up an injunction for the court to issue to curb the rails' anti-truck campaign. Wrote Judge Clary, in an acid 200-page decision: "There is a strong possibility that the defendants are ready...
LITTLE ROCK (291 alt., 120,000 pop.) cap and ldg city of Ark.; 3 R.R. lines (Mo. Pac., Chi. Rock Is. & Pac., St. Louis S. Western), 26 truck lines, 8 bus lines, 5 airlines 32 fits dly; Accoms: 20 hotels, 34 motels; Swim: Y.M.C.A. 6th St. and Bdwy; Misc: 250 churches, 8 banks, one federal res., 5 savings and loan assoc'ns. Ark. Livestock Show and Rodeo, Oct. (North Little Rock). Caution: jaywalking some sts punishable $5 fine; Avge mean temp: 80 deg. summer, 45 deg. winter...
...these things happened just as planned. Seven hours after launching, the observatory parachuted down, apparently undamaged, near Athens, Wisconsin, 150 miles away. A Navy truck guided by radio tracking, pounced on it promptly and brought the 35-mm. film back for developing. When the first pictures came from the darkroom, Dr. Schwarzschild pronounced them the best ever taken...
Slipping Business. In Glasgow, burglars broke into a grocery of the R. & J. Templeton chain, raided it for 8 Ibs. of butter, greased the floor with it, slid the safe to the door, where their getaway truck was waiting...