Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor. Alaska-born and a Valdez grocer, Bill Egan served in both houses of the territorial legislature, once offered to solve Alaska's woman shortage by proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
Owens: Did you set it (a Southwestern Motor truck) afire? Or Suttle...
...round peg in a square hole, and a free-form dachshund. On the other side, Tati ranges the proponents of the casual life: Hulot himself, an awesomely inefficient employee of the department of sanitation, a big fat slob who sells vegetables from the back of a prehistoric delivery truck, a sneaky old female janitor and her moronic daughter, several sinister schoolboys, several drunks, an overstimulated canary and any number of mangy mutts...
...city's supplies still have to cross that stubborn thumb of East Germany that separates Berlin from the West; one third arrives by rail, a third by truck, a third by barge. But governing Mayor Willy Brandt, a World War II resistance hero who looks as if he could fill the shoes of the late Bur germeister Ernst Reuter of blockade-days' fame, let it be known that his government has stashed away six months' supplies of fuel, food and medicine, valued at $180 million. If it came to a showdown, there were always the three...
...week's end the Russian air control officer was still showing up every day to help approve Western flights to Berlin. One three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...