Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 27 issue of our favorite newsmagazine: Good going and more power to Wild Horse Annie and her campaign [to prevent mustang hunting by airplane and truck]. I wonder how many of our "animal-loving" dog owners realized or even dreamed of the type of food they were passing on to their pampered pups...
...color and engraves all pictures and composes all pages. From Donnelley, duplicates of the assembled pages in the form of complete plates, mats, Vinylite molds or film positives are flown to the seven other domestic and overseas printing and binding plants. Bound copies are then shipped by rail, truck and plane to readers...
Most of the evening, Truck Driver George Rutherford paced nervously around his room in Roseburg, Ore.'s Umpqua Hotel. Once he walked the three blocks to the Gerretsen Building Supply Co. to look over the blue 1959 Ford truck he had parked on the street after a 290-mile drive from his home plant, Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash.. Cause for his worry: his cargo consisted of two tons of dynamite and 4½ tons of Car-Prill (a highly explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About...
...crowded last days of war, May 1945, a convoy of Nazi trucks, speeding away from the advancing U.S. troops, was hastily abandoned in upper Austria, 37 miles east of Germany's Berchtesgaden. One stalled truck yielded 23 chests crammed with expertly forged British ?5 and ?10 notes with total face value of several million dollars. At a lake near by, bank notes tossed overboard from a second truck began to float ashore. In the months that followed, U.S. Navy divers and British frogmen plunged to the 200-ft. to 250-ft. depths of Austria's Toplitz Lake...
...burning coal, the dragline operators will be only the length of their booms (60 to 90 ft.) away from the hot stuff. Each scoopful will be dumped on high ground and sprayed with water. In many places the hot surface will have to be covered with clay to keep truck tires from softening...