Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next night, Hugh Gravitt smacked his car, the same one that killed Margaret Mitchell, into a truck just outside Atlanta. He was not hurt seriously...
Last week Sculptor Roussil hoisted his 12-ft., 700-lb. piece into a truck and drove it to Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street for exhibition in the Art Centre. He arrived late and, finding the Art Centre closed for the night, he casually left his statue out on the lawn...
...tons of pig iron daily from the Newfoundland ore. But the Belle Isle vein is not as rich as the ones in Labrador; thus, the further expansion of the New England steel industry will have to wait until a transportation system is established through the Canadian hinterland. Though a truck road now cuts across Labrador, it will be a few years before a railroad is built. One plan sees the beginning of work on a 360-mile rail line by next summer. The actual mining operations in Labrador are being financed by Republic Steel, Inc., and six Canadian companies...
...miles to Kargalik, through the walled, rug-making, Moslem town of Yarkand. Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for seven months, were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named It (Turki dialect for dog) decided to join the caravan for pot luck...
Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...