Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Photoelectric eyes and electronic machines automatically tot up toll charges (top: $3 for an auto, $30 for a 40-ton truck). The 16 service plazas provide both king-size picnic areas and kid-size playgrounds. All signs have 16-in. letters legible at 900 ft.-enough for a 9-sec. reading at 65 m.p.h., the speed limit. All bridges have been built as separate twin structures; in all, overpasses span four major rivers, 38 streams, 41 railroad crossings and 282 other roadways. Result: a saving of nearly 3½ hours' driving time across Ohio...
...effect the switch, which had, of course, to be accomplished in one week, the staff of our Chicago traffic department worked seven weeks on such preliminary steps as making new address plates for the independent wholesalers and changing dispatch schedules and routings on truck, rail and air lines. When switchover week came, our magazines were sent in 2,200 shipments to the wholesalers for distribution to some 100,000 newsstands. W. A. Rogers, president of S-M, which had never before handled weekly magazines, called the switch "miraculous." Said TIME'S traffic manager, W. A. Evans...
...witness knew; he was Negro Willie Reed, 18, of Sunflower County, Miss., and he was so frightened he could hardly talk. He told his story: early on the morning after the kidnaping of Emmett Till, he had seen a boy who looked like Till's photographs in a truck with four white men. Soon afterward, he saw the truck outside a barn belonging to Milam's brother, and heard sounds inside "like someone being whipped." What sounds? "He say, 'oh,' " said Willie Reed, in a very low voice...
Later, the youth testified, he saw Milam come out "wearing a gun," then the truck was driven away. Afterward, he said, "I went home and got ready to go to Sunday school." Other witnesses confirmed part of his testimony...
...Truck Shovel Co., a manufacturer of heavy earth-moving equipment...