Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving. At the time, Rubi was busy. He was accompanying Hungarian Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor around Europe, like a bumblebee buzzing about a truckload of sugar. He still seemed disturbed, as a matter of fact, when he came to the U.S. last month. He visited New York to renew his acquaintance with Barbara, but then headed west to see Zsa Zsa again. Last week he was back in New York, and as he arrived, Dominican officials in Ciudad Trujillo announced that he was going to marry Barbara...
...famed Mille Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercédès-Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly blackboard drills, and each mile of the course was memorized...
...much." For hundreds of Houston parents, Reed came to typify their own servicemen sons; they flooded him with pies, cakes, homemade candy, books. When he wrote wistfully that he wished he had "a teaspoonful of Texas soil to put under my pillow at night," he got nearly a truckload, packed in small envelopes. But when Reed was home on a furlough, City Editor Johnston diplomatically asked him when he thought he might be going overseas...
...Russia's annexation of Karelia and Petsamo province, have worked in shipyards, lumber camps, factories and foundries to meet the harsh Russian levy. They have delivered, among other things, 300 paper mills, 7,000 locomotives and freight cars, countless miles of cable, electric motors by the truckload, scores of thousands of prefabricated wooden houses, huge river barges for the Volga, and a 573-ship merchant marine...
...Mixer. In Chicago, after a ten-day hunt for Truck Driver Dumonte Ashley Parker and a missing truckload of 750 cases of gin, police finally found the truck, short 250 cases, and Parker tipsy in a nearby tavern, where he indignantly told them: "I drink whisky myself...