Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truck Bluffer...
...fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
...year since 1958) that the sale is now regarded as a dead issue. Krupp might have done better to sell: Beitz admits that Rheinhausen is losing money, and outsiders guess that the loss has been running lately at $2,000,000 a year. Other soft spots: Krupp's truck-building and plane-making interests...
...peasant is sent to a mountain hideout near the Spanish border, where he joins a group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where they are packed into the false-bottomed trucks. Once out of range of French border police, the escapees...
...American Airlines' $30.5 million SABRE, a mechanical reservation clerk that gives instant up-to-the-minute information about every plane seat and reservation to American's 55 ticket offices. International Harvester uses a computer to simulate driving conditions on the Ohio Turnpike and thus evaluate a truck's probable life span. North American Aviation used computers to run 5,000 simulated test flights of the XB-70 before the plane ever got off the ground. Many large companies, especially in aerospace construction, are taking a lesson from the Navy's PERT system (for Program Evaluation...