Word: truck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...
Trippers' Triumph. From the outset, U.S. tourists eagerly bought the checks. President Fargo stubbornly resisted any more truck with tourists, even though American Express had a chain of import offices in Europe. "I will not," he growled, "have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Thomas Cook's. We will cash their traveler's checks and give them free advice. That's all." Inevitably, the trippers triumphed...
...General Robert E. Wood, 76, announced that he will resign this month, after 28 years as chairman of Sears, Roebuck's Savings and Profit-Sharing Pension Fund, which under his guidance has grown from $70 million in assets to $860 million. It has helped Sears clerks and truck drivers retire in affluence, holds 25.4% of Sears stock. Two years ago Wood resigned as board chairman, but remains a Sears director, chairman of its finance committee, and a director of half a dozen other companies...
...Ladykillers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then los ing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...
...Road. In Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Pauline Ellison crashed into a truck while driving down an icy highway, was thrown from her car, skidded 200 feet on her briefcase, was uninjured...