Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alabaster & Bronze. In Madrid the huge granite blocks were cut and then sent 28 miles northwest by truck to the Valley. On top of a rocky crest, a great white cross reached 500 ft. into the air. From artists' studios and artisans' workshops came statues of alabaster, doors of bronze, choir benches with medieval-style carvings, a main gate that alone cost $62,000. In 1956 the Valley was all but finished, but by that time it had begun to cause the Generalissimo considerable embarrassment...
...priest led two of the prisoners through the glare of truck headlights to the edge of the trench and then stepped back. Six rebel executioners fired, and the bodies jackknifed into the grave. Two more prisoners stepped forward, then two more and two more-and the grave slowly filled. Lieut. Enrique Despaigne, charged with 53 murders, got a three-hour reprieve at the request of TV cameramen, who wanted the light of a full dawn...
...gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror his righteousness. As the day wears on, instances of man's, and even nature's ingratitude multiply. Gregg lures a diseased cat into the poorhouse grounds, and Prefect Conner orders it shot, increasing the murmurings against him. A truck loaded with Pepsi-Cola rams through a section of the compound's wall. Rain drives the inmates into the sitting room, where they cackle like a Greek chorus while Hook and Conner debate the merits of God v. scientific rationalism...
...retail deliveries of Cadillacs in the first 20 days of December set a record. The Pontiac division has already produced 38% of its entire 1958 model year output (217,282 cars), still has 24,000 dealer orders to fill. Ford and Chevy also reported hefty increases in December retail-truck deliveries. Chevy said truck sales in the first 20 days of December were up 38.5% from last year, and Ford expects December to be the best month for truck sales since 1955. Many in the industry, like scrappy, optimistic American Motors President George Romney, were revising industry predictions upward from...
Over the past ten years, air freight, parcel post, bus and truck lines have cut into the Railway Express business. (To pick up 100 Ibs. of furniture in New York City and deliver it in Chicago via Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...