Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repair business, he had put in $40,000, all the money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...
...around the Colorado and Utah countryside picking up tips from old hands at the game. Finally, with his funds running low, he set off for the remote southeastern Utah site that Rasor had marked on the map. The country was so rugged that Pick had to leave his panel truck, walk in the last 25 miles. As he followed Muddy Creek into a stark and jagged canyon, he had to ford the.stream 21 times in six miles. Says Pick: "My feet got wet over and over again, and then they softened and the sand got in and made blisters...
...claim and then, to save his feet, fashioned a crude raft to carry him downriver to civilization. The raft upset, dumped Pick and his belongings into the river. Starting out on foot again, he lived for four days on dried milk and oatmeal. When he finally reached his truck again, he was retching with agony from arsenic poisoning picked up by drinking the fouled Muddy Creek water...
After filing his claim papers at Grand Junction, he put up his truck and trailers as collateral, to borrow enough from Grand Junction banks to buy a jeep and rent a bulldozer. Then he built a rough twelve-mile road into his property and started to mine uranium ore. He soon proved up 300,000 tons of uranium ore, one of the richest finds in the Colorado plateau...
...Manhattan last week, newspapers ran double-truck ads with the word "Go", in 15-in.-high type. The small type below explained that Ohrbach's famed and prosperous clothing supermarket was leaving its down-at-the-heels quarters on 14th Street to go 20 blocks uptown and "join the well-to-do company of Macy's and Gimbels...