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...both stations, the majority of residents are support staft--cooks, mechanics paramedics and communications operators To get water for their weekly two minute shower, the residents must take a tractor out and gather snow for a snow melter Gail says...
...price of defeat, which may in the long run outweigh the benefit of the tax, was the final removal of what have long been thorns in the industry's side--the size and weight restrictions on the interstate highway system. In 1956, Congress limited combined tractor and trailer weights to 73.280 lbs, and widths to 96 inches. Given that the average interstate is designed for weights of 60,000 lbs., the limit erred on the side of generosity--generosity doubtless matching the largesse of the industry lobbyists...
...federal funds for interstate repairs until 1976, when the system was already 20 years old, and routine maintenance remains a state obligation. Neglect at state and county levels is most obvious on the farm-to-market roads that are vital to agricultural production. As farms have grown larger, huge tractors, combines and cultivators are literally pulverizing these roads, which were built for much lighter loads. The family farmer who commonly hauled 100 bu. of corn to town has given way to corporate operators who use huge tractor-trailers for 1,500-bu. deliveries...
...feet away outside is a gleaming white tractor-trailer labeled BOB SHARP RACING. This is the team's machine shop and car van. Sharp is a Connecticut Datsun dealer and former racing champion who prepares the cars that Newman races. He says that Newman is faster around the track than last year; his reflexes have not slowed. It took him a couple of years, but he learned how to be a winning driver. The other drivers quickly got over the fact that his eyes are blue. He has great concentration, almost a woman's delicacy, guts enough...
Following a tip from an informant, law-enforcement officials in the small Massachusetts port town of Fairhaven tailed a tractor-trailer to Mullen's wharf earlier this month. As they watched, a 71-ft. fishing boat called Tiki X unloaded its cargo: 30 tons of pot. By dawn's light, police had arrested 26 men; all were later charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to violate state narcotics laws. The next morning, about 400 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds...