Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...borders, the state five years ago launched an industrial development program. Its heart was a $20 million revolving fund authorized to make loans to nonprofit development agencies for the construction of new plants in distressed areas. Result: the plan has attracted 389 plants (including Radio Corp. of America, Fruehauf Trailer and Chrysler Corp.) providing 106,000 factory jobs, encouraged the expansion of 700 existing firms, put to work 391 idle plants...
...normal routine, but beneath the spread of idiosyncracy in Skelton's life there has been true misfortune; often he retreats to the toy-filled room of his late son, Richard, who died of leukemia in 1958. He sits there and broods for hours. Once Skelton kept a small trailer at the back of his property and would close himself away in it for days at a time...
High in the Rocky Mountains, a giant tractor eased a six-room house along a steep, narrow road. As workmen loaded another house onto a huge steel trailer, a foreman shouted to the anxious bystanders, "Don't you worry, folks, the coffee you left behind will be a bit cooler when it gets there, but not a drop will be spilled...
...that new 1960 pennies with flawed date numerals were "the hottest item in the coin business," bringing up to $8 apiece. When the story hit the papers, a post office in New Orleans had to put on seven extra clerks to handle the calls. An eager Philadelphian backed a trailer up to the mint, prepared to buy pennies by the bagful and take his chances. Nobody seemed to be listening when the Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Mint announced that the pennies in question were not flawed in any way that would enhance their value, that there were...
...Equipment Co. The dramatic-looking Ranger-700 can lift 35 tons (35 times the capacity of smaller truck lifts), has 6-ft.-high tires, and two sets of controls, between which the operator in his air-conditioned cab can swing to keep his view unblocked. It can lift a trailer carrying half a dozen autos, hoist truck trailers on and off flat cars in rail road piggybacking. Ford has ordered five for its steel division. Price: $90,000 each...