Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine if the ads were "false and misleading." NBC reluctantly went on a diet, forthwith decided to cut out all Regimen commercials...
...their wares, they were not the only source of supply. As one Korean put it: "Much of the stuff never gets to the PX in the first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued at $3,200 was hijacked from the Pusan pier, and melted away into other hands before MPs could catch up with...
Their frail, unlikely-looking champion, Mrs. Velma B. Johnston. 47. is a Reno secretary. Ten years ago she was shocked to see a truckload of frightened, bleeding wild horses on their way to the slaughterhouse. She investigated the methods of roundup and was even more deeply disturbed, launched a campaign that has won her the nickname, "Wild Horse Annie...
...afraid that his Ivory Coast, the richest country in the area, might have to foot most of the bills. He not only kept the Ivory Coast out, but persuaded Niger to stay out, too. His lobbyists were less successful in the Voltaic Republic, though they had recently sent a truckload of wedding gifts to the emperor of the country's Mossi tribe...
...along the route to the embassy it was met by a barrage of mud, stones and assorted filth. Further back waved crudely lettered signs: "Go home, little dog Rountree." "Rontry, do not step on our beloved land with your bloody feet!" Waiting at the embassy gate was a truckload of mobsters chanting, "Go home, Rountree ... Go home, Rountree...