Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gain from their spoilsless victory. They have sent two frigates to patrol the Gulf of Aqaba and have placed four chartered merchant vessels in service between Elath and East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape of Good Hope...
...before cameras for a Grade B thriller. A Mexican and a Negro, youthful, hopped-up and zoot-suited, had abducted her in a car, claimed blonde Marie, after announcing: "We want your money, your rings and your body!" Some 150 miles away and 24 hours later, a truck driver spotted The Body wandering dazed along a highway, her hair sand-matted, some fingernails broken, face cut and bruised, two caps missing from her front teeth. After Marie, heavily shrouded and eerily resembling a Picasso portrait, had left a hospital with her current flame, Cinemactor Michael Wilding, the cops themselves were...
Self-loading Truck. Denver's Mighty Mover Co. showed off an open framework trailer truck that drives over its load, then, with cables on pulleys, hoists the load firmly into the framework. The Straddle Trailer, which can pick up loads 50 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, can be pulled by a truck cab at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. (cost...
...Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay; Miró would add his "signs": a star, a circle, a crescent...
Persons at the scene of the wreck said that flares had been set up at both ends of the parked truck, but the driver of the bus apparently failed to notice them until he was too close to the truck to halt his vehicle...