Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon, though the independent drivers themselves are members of the Teamsters Union, roving goon squads formed menacingly around the nonstriking bakeries, blocked off the highways and bridges leading out of town. Bricks were heaved through windshields, drivers slapped and pummeled, tires punctured, ignition systems ripped out, sugar poured into gas tanks. Drivers from bakeries not involved in the strike were forced off the road; one lost $480 in receipts, others watched helplessly while their loads of bread, pies and cakes were trampled, fouled with chemicals, strewn along the streets. At one bakery, 100 shouting pickets kept 45 trucks from moving...
Slow Stranglehold. The union bosses hoped to defeat Holland by dislocating New Zealand trade. Thousands of tons of perishable goods piled up in warehouses. Farmers lost money, local factories closed down for lack of raw materials. Sugar supplies ran out, homes were without heat, gas and power were rationed. Trade loss: an estimated...
...Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the fifth victory in his current European tour, a third-round knockout of Belgium's Cyrille Delannoit; in Turin, Italy...
...Memphis, Tenn., retiring president of the Convention, warned against "ecumenical adventures." Most Southern Baptists, he said, "believe that Christian unity in any body which does not adhere strictly to the divine principles of evangelical truth embodied in the New Testament is as impossible as to expect vinegar and sugar to mix without vinegar losing any sourness or sugar any sweetness...
Stranger in the House. In Pittsburgh, after police raided her home and found two 10-gallon stills, 40 gallons of mash, 250 pounds of sugar, 2½ gallons of moonshine, Mrs. Letha Jackson explained to the judge: "Somebody must have left all that there...