Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...films we showed were a series of Walt Disney cartoons designed to convey certain essentials of hygienes the need for clean houses and courts, the importance of latrines, proper care of food and water. With a portable generator mounted in a truck we were able to bring the films to villages, in addition to a number of showings in the town of Aboville. Excellent as the films were, however, their success, was limited. In the typical village nine out of ten people have never seen a movie, and are so taken with the physical image on the screen that...
...refer disparagingly to Henry Moyers as "a onetime cotton chopper, candy salesman and truck driver," and to say he was "never much of a moneymaker," is to bemean the virtues that built this great country. Unprivileged by today's standards, Henry worked hard at the jobs available to him, saved when he could, guided his sons masterfully, and today looks at every man with a level gaze. As an employee of Thiokol Chemical Corporation, he makes us proud of him and proud of his sons...
Climbing atop a sound truck parked for a Manhattan rally protesting the Viet Nam war, Miller announced: "I believe the napalming of villages in Viet Nam is an immoral act. I hope this will be a significant political act, so here goes." Then, while cameras whirred, he set fire to his draft card (classification 1-A) with a cigarette lighter...
Pope Pius XII thereupon prohibited the priests from working in factories more than three hours a day, forbade them to join unions, ordered them to live in religious communities. Some priests left the church, some left the movement, and about 50 stubbornly persisted in their ministry, working as truck drivers, electricians, factory-hands, farm laborers. With the ascension of Pope John, the French hoped for a more sympathetic Vatican stand, and were stunned when, in 1959, the ban was strengthened. Still, French bishops permitted the movement to continue clandestinely and persistently argued that the Vatican should give it a second...
Even more than the automakers, whose 1966 sales are off to a roaring start, U.S. truck manufacturers thrive on good times. As the economy grows, demand for trucks to haul everything from flowers to forge castings grows even faster. In 1965, for the fourth consecutive year, the U.S.'s 14 truck manufacturers expect to shatter records by turning out 1,500,000 vehicles and running up a 10% sales increase. Last week International Harvester, the industry's third largest company, announced that its truck sales have surpassed $1 billion for the first time, thus making Harvester the first...