Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious problems in obtaining sufficient high-octane aviation fuel, the French seem determined to carry on. An abnormal number of tankers recently unloaded at Libreville. The cargo included long, rope-handled wooden boxes, of the sort France uses to transport ammunition. The cases were taken in a French army truck to the military airport, where several other boxes marked "Army Rations" were in evidence...
...going to have a greenhouse in the Center? Are you going to raise frogs there? What are you going to do when you needs rats? Call Buildings and Grounds for a truck to cart them three blocks?" he said...
...posters--slightly censored reproductions of the banned "Two Virgins" album cover--were sold for $2 each from a panel truck parked next to Nini's newsstand. A loud-speaker on the truck blared snatches of old Beatles songs to attract passers...
More and more of the heavier trucks are diesel-powered. At White Truck, for example, more than 80% of this year's production had diesel engines, compared with only 55% in 1960. Meanwhile, Ford, General Motors and International Harvester are working on turbine-powered trucks that would be feasible on turnpikes. The turbine consumes fuel completely and quietly, producing a low noise level and nontoxic exhaust. But since its high fuel consumption makes the turbine-truck economical only at full throttle, the rigs would have to drop the trailers at terminals just off the expressway. From those terminals, conventional...
What makes truck manufacturers feel best of all is the resurgence of the good old pickup. "This year Mama's interested in pickup trucks," says Chevrolet's new truck-sales manager, O. H. Henry. "They have become a kind of second car." Altogether, some 100,000 new pickups will be sold in 1968 as "campers," which are $3,000 to $4,000 vehicles that have been upgraded to $5,000 and more to include extras...