Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egyptian headquarters dispatched-reinforcements. Two miles south of Gaza, the Israelis lay in ambush, waiting. As a truck carrying 36 soldiers approached, they hurled a bomb. Blinded, the driver swerved off the road. The hidden Israelis opened a withering fire on the truck's open back, threw hand grenades at the soldiers who tried to scramble out. Twenty-two were killed; no one escaped unwounded...
...Strategist Conrad was at work in other fields. He asked for and got the governor's assurance that, while the fight was on, favors for senators would be cleared through him. Thus, when a small town asked the State Highway Commission for permission to park its new fire truck in the state garage, the request was referred to Roy Conrad. When the puzzled state senator representing that district asked Conrad to approve the request, he got a question for an answer. How was he going to vote on the toll-road bill...
TIRE PRICES are going up again for the third time since November. B.F. Goodrich has just boosted all passenger and truck tire prices another 2½% to 5%, and the other big producers will probably soon follow suit, thus making the total price rise 15% since last fall. Reason: heavy demand, which has sent natural rubber prices up from 27⅝? to 35? a Ib. since...
...early 1941 was as pleasant as the champagne the travelers managed to buy in Xiptoc, a Russian village in the center of Asia. But in China's Sinkiang. "that province vhich has long since been abandoned by both gods and decent people." Willie broke his back in a truck crash. After a hefty Russian nurse helped him hobble out of Kuldsha's fly-blackened hospital, Willie caught more truck rides until the old Silk Road led him to Kashgar. on Marco Polo's route. There Britain's mountaineering consul, Eric Shipton, and his No. 1 houseboy...
...dozen desperate men step up. Mario, Luigi, Bimba and another are chosen; Jo is the fifth man, but one murder is all it takes to make him the fourth. Off they go in two trucks, two men to a truck. From that moment forward, the moviegoer is in physical danger from this picture, and should be warned of the fact. Whatever else may be said of it, Wages of Fear is one of the great shockers of all time. The suspense it generates is close to prostrating. Clouzot is not interested in tingling the customer's spine, but rather...