Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool green depths of Upper Michigan's 800,000-acre Hiawatha National Forest, amid the fragrance of sweet fern and venerable hemlock, U.S. Forest Ranger Edwin Youngblood, 38, eased his pickup truck along a sand-soft logging road one day last week. He sang out a warning to a gang of pulp cutters to take only the jack pine that rangers had paint-striped for cutting, told them to heave dead branches 50 feet back from the roadway, out of cigarette-throw range...
...Colorado's jagged San Juan Mountains, Ranger Steve Yurich, 34, flew off in a Cessna for a quick fire-spotting swing around his Piedra district, switched to a pickup truck to check the camp sites and flag down a logging truck, then saddled up his horse, "Buck," to inspect the grassy uplands where ranchers will graze 2,800 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep this summer under.permit from the Forest Service...
...grey, glum village square of the town of Kildare (pop. 2,617), a big red sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin...
That night, flames soared above overturned buses, clinics, community centers, shops and a library. Even an African nursery school lay in ruins, identifiable the next morning only by the charred remains of a child's kiddy car. A burning truck hurtled off a road and crushed a passer-by to death. Around one ruined clinic, sad-faced mothers squatted in bewilderment, not knowing what to do about the sick and hungry babies strapped to their backs...
...industrial production in May climbed to a record high of 152% of the 1947-49 average, two points above the month before, and six points above the pre-recession high. In the nation's mines, mills and factories, broad production gains were chalked up in farm machinery, trucks and autos, building materials, metals, clothing, textiles, chemicals and paper. Auto production in U.S. plants was up 3.6% over the week before to 131,584 cars, a pace that will send U.S. car output to its greatest June total in four years; truck volume rose to the best June level...