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Word: trucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Dinner Time | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...want," Derek bought himself a secondhand truck. That meant applying to the Newcastle authorities for a carrier license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Competitor | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Sadly Derek sold his truck, bought some ledgers, and went back to work with his horse and cart. Said he, in a forthright and unwitting commentary that revealed much about what is wrong with Britain's economy and its laws for the protection of the entrenched: "If they work as hard as I do, they've got nothing to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Competitor | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...TRUCK RATES will go up for second time this year because Jimmy Hoffa's central states conference teamsters are riding toward another pay raise. Midwest truckers are resigned to a boost in present $2.34 hourly minimum, possibly as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...third-floor composing room of the Chicago Sun-Times last week, a forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it into a waiting truck on Franklin Street. Twenty minutes later the Linotype, its lead still molten, clattered back into action at the new $20 million Sun-Times building on the north side of the Chicago River, six blocks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To the Mat! | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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