Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Residents of La Fayette, Ind. (pop. 35,000) had never seen anything quite like it. One day they saw men unloading a truck at a weed-grown lot. Six days later a trim new two-bedroom house stood there, complete with shrubs and fresh-laid concrete walks. Most startling of all was the price: $5,750, including...
...mine of the Sunnyhill Coal Co. near New Lexington, Ohio one day last week, amazed mine experts watched a huge (26-ton) machine in action. With surprisingly little noise, it tore into a seam, spewed a continuous stream of coal into a truck that followed. Within a minute and a half, the five-ton truck was almost full; in that time the machine had come close to the average U.S. production per man-day (around five tons). The machine's lone operator apologized because it had taken so long; he was running the digger at slow speed...
Among the designers of the Colmol was Sunnyhill's 37-year-old President Clifford H. Snyder, who started in business with a $75 second-hand truck. He now runs a company that grosses $25 million a year. Along with Co-Inventors Arnold E. Lamm, Sunnyhill's executive vice president, and V. J. McCarthy, a coal man of Youngstown, Ohio, he built a prototype of the machine around an old army tank, worked out the bugs in a company warehouse, that was guarded day & night...
Toga recovered, left the cave and returned to Athens, where she was picked up by the police. She blabbed the cave's location and police raided it just as Politis, a short distance away in his truck, was signaling to guerillas there with a flashlight. Arrested, Politis threw himself beneath the wheels of a police car and was packed off to the hospital with a mangled left leg. This...
...talking station (it announces arrivals & departures) and Lionel's scale models of Santa Fe and New York Central diesel trains. Trains will get lively competition from a new type of toy-the remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal with hand-operated locks and boats which are propelled by electrified bars along the side...