Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weel." Dr. Ritchie's research started in the early 19305, when clerks in his health department pestered him for a vaccine against their recurrent colds. Glasgow-born Dr. Ritchie harrumphed that he would have no truck with such nonsense. But, says he: "One woman kept nattering at me so long that eventually I said 'Och, weel.' and decided to give her a vaccine to keep her quiet." He had a vaccine prepared from her saliva, told her it was being given only to prove its uselessness. Yet on weekly injections all one winter, she had no cold...
Shear Luck. In Atwater, Calif., Bill Blasingame failed to stop his truck in time at a railway crossing, sat helplessly while a passenger train clipped off the front end up to the windshield; stepped out on wobbly legs...
...departure, it still had hopes of holding on to its remaining General Motors' accounts (which made up nearly 40% of billings), immediately announced a change in top command. Last week Kudner knew the worst-all reconciliation had failed. Out went two more G.M. accounts, Frigidaire and the G.M.C. Truck and Coach Division, billing about $9,000,000 a year...
...pressed to defend it. As of last week, Kudner had only four small G.M. accounts worth some $6.000,000 left-Fisher Body, Allison Engine, Cleveland Diesel, Detroit Diesel. Madison Avenue was taking bets on which would be the next to go, and who would pick up Frigidaire and G.M.C. Truck. One leading possibility: McCann-Erickson, which gave up Chrysler to take over Buick. is anxious for a crack at the rest of G.M.'s big business-though it would have to give up its Westinghouse account to take on rival Frigidaire...
Monsoon Rains. Rebel sources blamed Nangolan's tame surrender of Medan on the failure of reinforcements to arrive from North and Central Sumatra. Colonel Simbolon, the rebel Foreign Minister, had set out for Medan from the rebel capital of Bukittinggi, but his 100-truck column was bogged down by monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore...