Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked the court? Yes, said Mustafa, one had a very large udder, the other a twisted horn. The prosecutor and the judge looked at each other with a nod of assent. The truck in which the cows lowed sorrowfully was opened and the beasts clomped out-one with an extra-large udder, the other with a twisted horn...
PRESSAGENTS: "Public relations is the greatest American discovery since 'relaxation' . . . The Americans can make in 24 hours, out of an uncouth truck driver, the king of popular song. But the French public takes a long time to get over this kind of shock...
...going to have to step out of the way here to let this tornado go past. There it goes!" Seconds later, as the black twister screamed past him, Newsman Bob Whitten of Dallas' KRLD told radio listeners how the tornado flipped a huge trailer truck 50 ft. into air, then smashed it down atop an empty car. Listeners could hear the thud of debris on and around Whitten...
...TRUCK-SALES BOOM for International Harvester is pushing biggest U.S. farm-equipment maker ahead of American Motors Corp. as nation's No. 4 automotive producer. New figures show International's 1956 truck sales jumped two-thirds to $573 million, ranking company just behind front-running truckers Chevrolet and Ford. Trucks now account for 46% of International's business v. 29% for farm equipment...
...LACROSSE MISSILE, U.S. Army's surface-to-surface bird designed to carry a nuclear or conventional warhead about ten miles for close ground support, is going into large-scale production by Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin. Missile and truck launcher can be airdropped to troops, will probably be delivered to Army units by summer...