Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first pictures brought back of four medium-range missile sites indicated that the Russians were indeed dismantling their missiles. Some missile launchers had been removed, trailers and tents had vanished, and some areas had been plowed and bulldozed over. One picture showed a truck convoy moving away from a base...
...Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock, including a $9,000 combine, two pickup trucks, a 2½-ton truck and three tractors. Helen England raises German shepherd dogs, earned $2,300 last year, and used part of the money to buy new bedroom furniture. They have an automatic washer and dryer, wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room, vinyl tile in the dining...
Another defendant. Artur Harder, a clerk in the Krupp truck factory in Frankfurt, was accused of having helped Heuser tie victims to a stake, "pour fuel on and light the living sacrifices." Harder said that he was kept so busy cremating bodies in a special incinerator he had devised that he had been able to take off only two days for his honeymoon. Following Harder's testimony, the judges cleared the court of school-age children, apparently on the theory that they were getting too vivid a picture of Nazi horror...
After the war Milner really got rolling. Going into surplus vehicle sales, he scoured Mississippi for veterans' priority certificates, was able to buy up equipment that could be sold at a tidy profit. Next, he set up as a car and truck importer, bought sight unseen a shipload of tractors for $833,000, which he did not have. Before the ship docked, Milner had sold the tractors for $998,000. Eventually, he acquired four Chevrolet agencies and one Pontiac dealership, and became one of G.M.'s biggest-volume dealers...
Thus encouraged, Detroit went all-out at its auto show. Virtually every car and truck model produced by any U.S. automaker was on display. Fashion models slouched along a runway beside a 30-ft. revolving tower. Pontiac lined the doors of its Bonneville convertible with peacock feathers, and Dodge dressed up its truck display with two feminine "truck drivers" in short, short shorts. (Stock question from male showgoers: "Do you come with the truck?" Stock answer: "You couldn't afford...