Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressed for funds after General MacArthur drove it underground in 1950, had decided to set up a string of phony companies on credit, sell goods quickly for all the. cash they could get, and funnel the money into the party chest. Their first move in what they called "Operation Truck Corps" was to get control of the Nippon Institute, chiefly through Murai. Then they set up a network of trading firms, all using the institute's reputation to drum up business. So far, police investigators have turned up 100 Communist-run companies operating on the same line as-Murai...
...deposited in electroplating. In another room in M.I.T.'s sprawling Building 2, a colleague toyed with a tray of marbles to demonstrate molecular action. Near by, another scientist was making a telescope out of cheap lenses, curtain rings, a cardboard cylinder, and some pieces of hose from a truck radiator...
...enlistment standards, tried hard to retrain its misfits the world over. Moreover, the Pentagon is readying legislation for Congress ensuring that only those men "who have an effective job performance potential" will enter Army ranks through the draft. In the nuclear age, the Army has discovered, even the truck drivers and the supply clerks must be ready to fight effectively...
ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION is increasing, says Senate antimonopoly subcommittee. Its 18-month survey of latest Census Bureau figures shows that 50 biggest U.S. companies accounted for 23% of total value of U.S. manufactures in 1954 v. 17% in 1947. Top four automakers had 75% of auto and truck market v. 56% in 1947; top four appliance makers held 50% of market v. 36% in 1947; top four steelmakers held...
...resist congratulating Artzybasheff for his delightful cover of anthropomorphic road-building tools. That apprehensive truck, hands atop head, makes the whole...