Word: tire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...launched General Leasing Co., later abridged to Gelco. It grew big because Grossman had a further idea: don't just lease vehicles but also manage them, keep computer records on when each one needs a lube job or a tire change, when to trade it in for the best price. Companies tripped all over themselves to buy his service; it eliminated one more management migraine. He admits: "There is nothing we do that any one of our clients cannot do. But they cannot do it as inexpensively as we because we aim all of our services at a large...
Although all Klansmen subscribe to the same racist beliefs, they are fractured among at least a dozen factions. The oldest and largest is the 3,500-member United Klans of America, led by Robert Shelton, 50, a former tire salesman from Tuscaloosa, Ala. But his group has been waning in influence in the past few years. The South's most visible klavern now is the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which has about 2,500 gun-toting, violence-talking members. Their imperial wizard is Bill Wilkinson, 36, a former electrical contractor from Denham Springs...
Both City Hall and satisfied residents will ignore the problems of these groups, though. The whites of West Roxbury and the liberals of the Back Bay will tire of the racial confusion and turn to chiding the poor for disrupting their comfortable city. Politically, the importance of the poor will dwindle as they make up a diminishing portion of the electorate. Blacks, students, tenants and poor whites simply don't vote in large enough numbers to make a difference. Socially they will be the outcast of both the affluent newcomers and the Irish establishment. The real challenge of the next...
...Partner Bill Morgan to give a lecture on tracking. The class is a mix of state narcs, Tucson cops and customs officers. Lawrence and his desert lore are a curiosity to most of the audience. But they know his specialty means more than following a fleeing outlaw. Carefully catalogued tire tracks and footprints can be used as evidence in court. Twelve people were convicted in the Norman-Taylor case simply because Lawrence linked tire tracks and footprints to the drug cache, the airplane flying that night, and other trucks used for hauling contraband. Two of the smugglers were prominent Tucson...
...half ago. With the coming of hot weather in New Orleans, they decided to work their way west through fairs and markets and end up in Portland, where they have a cabin. When last glimpsed, they were living in their car, trying to raise money for a carburetor and tire...