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Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, whose U.S. shopping sprees have already included the purchase of 20 air-conditioned limousines and a $20,000 auto-trailer, decided he needed a modern flying carpet. Transocean Air Lines announced that it was custom-fitting (for some $100,000) a Douglas DC-4 as an aerial palace for His Majesty. Among the accessories: a raised throne which revolves a full 360° and has an extra-heavy-duty safety belt; an oversized bed in a bedroom complete with bath; an elevator; 18 luxurious chair seats. The plane is expected to be ready...
Like an army awaiting H-hour, 150 huge trailer trucks lined up on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River one night last week. At midnight the trucks thundered into Manhattan by bridge and tunnel, fanned out over Long Island and northern suburbs. It was the first time in 70 years that yellow margarine could be legally sold in New York State, the nation's biggest market. By noon, a total of 400 trucks, some of them blaring banners labeled "Operation Oleo," had stocked almost every food store in the state...
...gauges. But the flood, even as it fell, showed its awesome power. The suction of the receding waters pulled huge chunks of muck from the levees. On the Omaha shore, the river forced its way into sewer outlets and gushed out with enough strength to lift a truck-trailer off the street and to buckle 120 feet of concrete pavement. Army engineers quickly dropped a lattice of steel I-beams across the sewer outlets, then jammed up the barrier with sandbags by the thousands. It worked...
...Hits Trailer Truck...
Trucks were bunched on the hill. Hall wanted to land in the right lane where a truck had seen the plane and stopped traffic. A line of trees prevented him, however. He tried the center strip, but the landing gear hit a west-bound trailer truck and the plane nose-dived into the highway...