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...fellow Pre-Med Steven Shafer, 24, who dropped out after the first week of his junior year, hitched a trailer to his car and headed for California. Two years later he was back in school, still eager to pursue medicine but also possessing some valuable souvenirs of his stop-out period, including a pilot's license, a fair knowledge of American literature, and the ownership of a computer software firm that grossed $300,000 last year...
...urgent appeal from the Daily Express, a trucking company, went out to thousands of transport firms around the U.S.: "On April 19 at approximately 5 p.m., our 42-ft. flatbed trailer was stolen from the lot of Continental Can Co., Bedford Heights, Ohio. Two International Harvester Payloaders were on the trailer...
Nothing was ever heard again of the two $35,000 Payloaders. A witness remembers that another tractor truck simply hooked on to the trailer and drove it away. The driver seemed to know exactly what he was doing and aroused no suspicion. Nor was it the company's first experience. A year ago, two J.I. Case backhoes (trench diggers), worth $18,000 each, were stolen the same...
...equipment is left on the job site when work crews head home. Watchmen are too expensive for many contractors, and the ones that are posted are easily overpowered by thieves. Says Hugh Goulding, vice president of Howell Tractor and Equipment Co., "The thieves simply winch it onto a lowboy trailer and drive it away...
...Sailor has the same easy-sippin' mix as the Margaritaville music on his last album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. The title cut, for instance: "The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains, I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer." Or the song "Manana...