Word: freezers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stationed at Orléans, persuaded the warrant officer to bring the heroin into the U.S. for a $10,000 courier's fee-small change compared to the worth of the package. The drug, packed in 190 half-kilogram plastic bags, was secreted inside Conder's home freezer before the Army shipped it home with his other belongings. Soon after it arrived at Fort Benning in November, Le Franc tried to make the prearranged pickup...
...first things Floyd Handshoe did after joining the Happy Pappies was to buy a $300 freezer-on credit. It contains no meat as yet. He was "aiming to kill that bull calf and a hog" in October, he explains, "but I got to looking at the moon. You can't kill no meat on the new of the moon. It will be tough. I studied the calendar and the almanac, and the soonest I can do it is around the ninth or tenth of next month." Then there is the hillbilly's fundamentalist religion, ever inveighing against sins...
...kids at home, and I raised them on less than $2,000 a year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen to pepper the pants of any welfare worker who wants to check up on just how much he possesses...
...look over the crops or attack the weeds that infest the vegetable garden behind the house. He grows nearly every fruit and vegetable* in the seed catalogue. Mabel, who can hardly use one-fifth of what he grows, has a surplus problem of her own. She has a big freezer and a cellar room for her preserves, but the bounty from Charlie's garden overflows both...
...able to get very far away from it all. Chris Craft, the General Motors of the powerboat industry, now finds that 70% of its customers who want 28-ft. yachts and more also want and are willing to pay for a whole galaxy of luxury accessories. Among them: refrigerator-freezer, $1,250; four-burner stove with oven and broiler, $365; deluxe hot-water system with mixer faucets and spray hose, $1,210; electrically pumped shower, $450; automatic pilot...