Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some resorted to ingenious ruses. Two men were arrested in Miami after police discovered that a floor board had been cut out of their dilapidated van. Underneath was $5,000 worth of equipment, including intake hoses, battery-operated pumps and a 350-gal. storage tank. Apparently the pair would drive into a station, casually park over an unlocked underground tank and help themselves. On a smaller scale, thieves faced another kind of retribution. In the process of siphoning gas, they often ended up swallowing some of the gas that gushed forth. Cases of gas poisoning were up all over...
...further insecurities are sprouting up at this moment, only days from an 11-star break. No one seems to believe that the Orioles can stay in first place much longer, but some people are beginning to think that Earl Weaver is the kind of manager who could drive his club to such a feat...
...often operate on very low profit margins, felt they deserved fast financial relief. They argued that cumbersome federal regulations have long favored the big trucking companies, which are not on strike, and discriminated against smaller owners. Under federal rules, to carry anything except agricultural products, the independents must drive under contract to the big companies. When they hire out, they must pay the company between 30% and 50% of their gross returns...
Says George Sullivan, national organizer for the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers (FASH): "We have to live with innumerable rules and regulations that take up all your time. You have to get 197 different permits if you drive in 48 states. You have to buy a permit to buy fuel in a state and then tell them how many miles you drive and send them back money for driving through. When the truckers are making money, they can put up with all that. But when they're not making money, they get very hostile...
...July 1, the fund-raising machinery of the Harvard College Fund-which con- ducts an annual fund drive among Harvard alumni-will join the development office for the duration of the capital drive. The Harvard College Fund includes committees in six geographical divisions of the country for each alumni class...