Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...models are put up in a yellow trailer standing a few yards from the house. He paints them on couches "because they chatter less in that position." The models serve merely as springboards for Kitchens' cheerful, elegant and curiously impersonal art. On canvas their faces are almost blank and their bodies have more paint than flesh about them. But the paint is beautifully arranged...
...Well. In Houston, police pieced together the evidence, concluded that the burglar who broke into the Hi-Lo Oil Co. building 1) tried without success to open up the cash register, the cigarette machine, the soft-drink machine; 2) tried to drive away with a trailer truck which jackknifed; 3) placed two long distance telephone calls and found nobody home; 4) quit in disgust...
During the Inchon campaign, Almond toured his front lines indefatigably. As early as 4 a.m., he would leave his 2½-ton trailer CP (equipped with refrigerator and alfresco shower) to drive his own jeep to some jumping-off point. He got to know by name every X Corps battalion commander, talked to several score men in the ranks daily. One G.I. gave him this passing mark: "The soldiers here may not like him, but they sure as hell admire him. That's one general who sticks his neck out just like we have...
Last week a shiny, 32-foot trailer truck lumbered up to the General Electric Co.'s laboratories at Schenectady, N.Y. A procession of 25 blood donors trooped in at one end. Within a few hours, out came twelve different components of human blood, all neatly separated and refrigerator-packed to hold their freshness and life-saving powers as long as possible. The world's first "blood factory on wheels," developed by a Harvard University research group, was being demonstrated to the National Academy of Sciences...
...their brethren busy cooking and serving meals in batches of 20,000, giving first aid to the heat-prostrated, returning lost children, painting signs, running a post office and arranging transportation. At night hundreds of them trekked back across the Hudson River to a 90-acre tent and trailer camp at New Market, N.J., where another 9,000 had listened in over loudspeakers. And in between times, they managed to give New Yorkers the impression that there was a Witness on nearly every street corner, cheerfully hawking his sect's two periodicals, The Watchtower and Awake...