Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still considered explosive at home until, in 1954, the ghost of Shchukin rose to haunt them. During a huge Picasso retrospective in Paris, Shchukin's daughter, Irene, demanded back 37 Picassos formerly in her father's collection. In a panic, the Russian embassy dispatched a small black truck to the exhibit, whisked the Picassos off the wall and to safety inside their embassy. Said Comrade Picasso: "After all, what would happen if the Count of Paris claimed the chateau of Versailles...
...Tourneau's experimental 35-ton "electric-wheel" truck which can operate in roadless open country. Its 335-h.p. diesel engine feeds power to each of the truck's six wheels, powering each wheel individually without any shifting of gears...
...Caterpillar Tractor's side-dumping bucket for crawler tractors. Unlike other buckets, it rests on the end of the rig, can tilt to 60° right or left, deliver load to truck without having tractor turn to dump...
...defense, independent oilmen argue that the essential economy of the industry makes it difficult for them to increase production. They declare that any production increase would only benefit major producers with big wells hooked into pipelines; small producers would still have to truck their oil to market at the high cost of 35? per bbl. Furthermore, independents fear that if they hike production to ease a short-term crisis in Europe, they will be stuck with a big surplus once the crisis is past. The problem could be solved easily, say the independents, if the big companies would divert their...
...meditation) is the form of Buddhism that is at the same time most appealing and appalling to the Western mind. It claims to be as practical as a Mack truck; it is certainly as anti-intellectual as a hooky-playing schoolboy, and often as humorous as a well-timed pratfall. But it also insists on the disconcerting necessity of saying yes and no at the same time...