Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their most pious mien, the priests thereupon barred the doors of their temples to all but "genuine worshipers," whom they admitted free. The definition of a "genuine worshiper"? One who agreed to make a "voluntary" (and hence taxfree) donation later...
...including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings of heavily laden barges, businessmen can ship goods north and south at rates anywhere from 20% to 50% cheaper than by rail or truck. The saving, says the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which built the waterway, amounts to a whopping $83 million annually, more than the entire $65 million construction cost since the canal was first started...
...Waterway has really proved its value in peacetime. At least 500 companies (among them: Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, Dow Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars) to Houston by inland waterway from the Great Lakes, saves...
...Cyprus. "When do we leave for Egypt?" cried one cheerful French voice. That night, however, the Tenez la Gauche (Keep to the Left) and other road signs put up for the convenience of the French were torn down, and the next day EOKA gunmen fired on a French army truck. The French returned the fire...
...dark statistic: agricultural prices dropped 3% in the month ended Aug. 15, but were up 2% from August 1955. But other prices, rising on a broad front for the past month, kept going higher. Rises were announced in the prices of office typewriters (5% to 12%), in some truck andconstruction equipment (1.7% to 6%), in the tin plate used for food cans (1.25%). Nevertheless, in August, when most consumer rises went into effect, sales in U.S. department stores were 5% more than the year before...