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...spontaneous; both the Teamsters Union and the American Trucking Association publicly disavowed them. But the drivers have their own informal communications network: the Citizen's Band radios that link them rig-to-rig as they roll along. Last week those radios crackled with calls to revolt by parking tractor-trailers across turnpikes and barricading traffic. After the first major jam was organized Monday by a driver (known to other truckers as River Rat) on a stretch of Interstate 80 near Blakeslee, Pa., the stoppages spread into Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New York and Ohio...
...which would douse nearly all outdoor advertising and cause store-window lights to blink off after 9:30 p.m. and office-building and parking-lot lights to go dark three hours after the close of business every night. Texaco announced that its deliveries of home heating oil, diesel and tractor fuel to distributors this month will be 27% lower than in December last year. At that, the American shortages are mild compared with those in Europe, where bitter cold and record snowfalls are already worsening the bite. An economic study now being passed around among top officials of the Common...
Road Show. America on the Move covered the country in a 40-ft. tractor-trailer painted red, white and blue and draped from one end to the other with American flags. Inside, visitors were treated to an inspirational film short narrated by McMahon; they could also pick up pamphlets on drug abuse, ecology and patriotism. The road show got rave reviews as it made its way across the continent. On Christmas night, it was publicized by a TV show celebrating the Teamsters. McMahon hosted, and such stars as Sammy Davis Jr. and Debbie Reynolds performed. The caravan was scheduled...
...power to prevent the PRG from rebuilding the economy and from producing rice. "They are trying to destroy us by bombs and hunger," he said, "but if they kill off our water buffalo it is a very serious problem for us for they are our equivalent of the tractor...
...share of the 2,300 acres that he farms in Ramsey County, N. Dak. He has set off on a buying spree that city people may consider peculiar. New machines are the Cadillacs of a farmer's life. Already, Plemel has bought a $1,400 gardening tractor for his lawn, a $7,000 utility tractor for his barnyard and a $25,000, four-wheel-drive tractor-complete with air conditioning, stereo and a contour seat designed by President John F. Kennedy's back specialist-for his fields...