Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier, an Indian commander told him: "We are hanging by our eyelashes." Emergency living conditions in Tezpur were primitive. "I slept in a tent, and one night a sacred cow ate my socks." reported Behr. After badgering authorities, he was permitted to visit the front lines. In Jeep and truck, the journey took 18 hours through nearly impenetrable jungles and over narrow, rutted mountain paths up to 13,000 ft. high. Says Behr: "No devilish imagination could ever plan any such testing ground for troops or transport...
...height of the Cuban crisis recently, a truck driven by a U.S. marine went out of control on a steep hill at the Guantanamo naval base. The speeding truck hurtled down the hill, smashed through the steel Cyclone fence separating the base from the rest of Cuba, and rolled into Castroland. Red militiamen moved fast-the other way. The marine backed his truck home, but it was a long five minutes before the first Cuban, reassured that this was not the "imperialist invasion," returned to his post...
...case, authorities traced Miller to his mother's home in Soperton, Ga. There, four days after the crime, FBI men and the county sheriff found him and Rosalie. Miller, who had shaved off his mustache, was hiding under some burlap in the back of a pickup truck. He denied all charges, insisted that he had left Connecticut because work there had "played out." At week's end, Westport police went to Georgia to pick...
...Hellcat, it did more than any other planemaker to win the war in the Pacific. Sales climbed to $324 million during 1944, then plummeted to $24 million in 1947 as military demand virtually disappeared. Struggling back, Grumman branched into rescue, transport and company planes, as well as aluminum truck bodies, boats and canoes. By last year, sales were at $317 million and profits $6.1 million...
Music & Manicurists. In a number of countries abroad, where railroading still has not lost the battle with the truck, auto and plane, railroads are rapidly rolling out new super expresses in their determined drive to win passengers on middle-distance runs. The trains often outspeed the planes, counting travel time to and from airports, and they are usually faster, smoother and safer than cars...