Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road-builder. It works something like sizing in coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...
Between Zanesville and Massillon, last week, a black Lincoln Zephyr coupe zipped along U.S. 21. At its wheel was Earl J. Jones, the nation's newest chain-newspaper publisher. Eleven years before, Jones had rolled along U.S. 21 at the wheel of a truck that carried all of his few personal belongings. He was then a cattle dealer in bankruptcy, had dropped the name of Ralph Alonzo Stilwell to become Earl Jones, and was hunting a WPA job for himself. He found it at Zanesville...
...readily moved. Average capacity is 5,000 bbl. a day. One mile of the line and its auxiliary equipment weighs 13 tons, less than half the weight of a regular pipeline of equal capacity. A thousand feet of this pipe can easily be handled by one Army truck and crew...
...down the Rio Grande Valley, Texas truck farmers were destroying most of the biggest vegetable crop they had ever raised. The losses were figured in millions...
...farmers had no choice. The whole intricate system of food distribution from one of the richest U.S. agricultural regions had collapsed. In other years the bulk of the Rio Grande Valley crops had been shipped to market in trucks that swarmed the highways. (There are few railroads.) But this year only dozens of trucks-not hundreds-appeared. Truck drivers and owners are in uniform, or working in war plants. And many trucks are laid up for lack of tires and parts...