Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference to their longtime favorite, Mercurys), or fit used cars with Cadillac engines. Some still prefer the old technique of concealing a hundred or more cases under the hay of a cattle truck...
...Exasperated by a series of "victory" speeches, Arvey commented: "I think we scored a great victory. I also think we got hit by a truck...
...steep, truck-clogged grade in California's Sierra Nevada moun tains, the Southern Pacific Railroad recently erected a sign: "Take the trucks off the highway. Put the trucks on piggyback." The railroad's sign symbolized a growing problem for the U.S. trucking industry. Piggybacking, which was originally envisioned as a happy marriage between trucks and railroads, has zoomed 180% (to some 210,000 carloadings annually) since 1954, and the outlook is for a $1 billion business by 1965. But so far, railroads have puffed off with most of the profits. Of 39 roads offering some form of piggyback...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
Night to Howl. In Newark, Truck Driver Mrs. Betty Jean Johnson, a 200-pounder, was sentenced to two days in jail for brawling after she brought an alley cat into the El Morocco Bar, shared her drink with it, tussled with other customers who objected when the cat nipped their drinks, justified her behavior by explaining that it was National Cat Week...