Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez and took on veteran Egyptian Pilot Mahmoud Metwali. The Jackson paid $10,295 in tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia, U.S. Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler left his office...
Some of the Scranton union tactics were as simple as a tooth-busting fist. Others were more ingenious; e.g., threatening to douse the milk, eggs and butter of a nonunion dairy truck with kerosene, and pouring sugar into the gasoline tank of a steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned...
...weapons of the Atomic Age: the rocket Honest John and the guided missile Corporal; the vast, complicated network of control panels and radar screens and radio beams that will aim and fire the supersonic Corporal at an enemy perhaps 200 miles away; the surprisingly agile 30-ton missile-carrying trucks; the truck-bed cranes called "cherry pickers" and the devastating wallop itself: atomic warheads. Today's army, SETAF is armed and ready for tomorrow's atomic...
...CARGO PACTS, under which truck lines agree to boycott shipments going to or from plant that is struck or branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are heading for big setback. ICC is expected to accept its examiner's recommendation to cancel operating permits of truck lines that refuse to handle hot freight...
...Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week. The star: Fiat's tiny bug-shaped Model 600 Standard, which is priced in the U.S. at $1,298. Fiat's other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan distributor claims to have 5,000 orders already...