Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private train and his big, black limousine with the red leather cushions, and for all the hectic saluting that went on wherever starchy old Courthouse strode or rode. General Lee, supply chief to easygoing Ike Eisenhower, loved parades and smaller pomp, and he insisted that his quartermasters, bakers and truck drivers be snappier, and handier with that salute, than any combat infantryman...
...TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook him for a Hindu and wanted to kill him. He finally convinced them that he was a Roman Catholic by showing his crucifix and answering some questions about the Bible...
...Tracers. Many radioisotopes are so short-lived that they must be rushed to their destinations by air and used at once, before their radioactivity has been frittered away. The Clinton Laboratories pop them into stainless steel and lead containers (weighing up to 1,600 Ibs.) and speed them by truck to the Knoxville airport. Prices vary widely. Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie* (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000). In the past year Oak Ridge made 1,092 shipments to 161 U.S. users, none to foreign countries...
White said that the truck manned by three men would answer all fires with the rescue truck under the command of Captain Daniel A. Walsh...
...healthier than the average U.S. citizen, less apt to be insane or to commit suicide. Three have become alcoholics; four have been in jail. Today, the group includes 69 lawyers, 44 doctors, 85 college professors, 25 authors or journalists, seven artists or composers, seven policemen and one truck driver. They have written more than 100 books and 1,200 magazine articles, taken out 150 patents. Their incomes are above average, but not startlingly so: for men, $4,700; for women...