Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little trip to Florida." Miller cut him off in midsentence, admonishing him that "it was improper for officers to accept any kind of favors . . . from trainees." One rainy day, when Schine's company was on the firing range, Miller spotted Schine sitting in the cab of a truck. Schine explained that he was "studying logistics...
...Mokwatsi, a 17-year-old Negro employed as a field hand, explaining to his master: "We think he stole two jackets, and we want him to show us where he hid them." Joseph was handed over; the Gouws tied a leather thong around his neck, threw him into their truck and drove...
...beat him with a hose pipe. Then they dragged him into a tobacco shed, where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck. At last, Uncle van Schalkwyk decided to try his hand at making Joseph talk...
...have brought on themselves the ire of motorists and tightening restrictions from states on trailer weights, size, etc. Railroaders, in turn, have seen their costs rise as business dropped. These pressures are forcing the two adversaries to end their fighting and compromise. The compromise: piggyback shipping, i.e., carrying loaded truck trailers on railroad flatcars...
Captain-elect Bob Rittenburg and Art Siler collected all the varsity's five points in Saturday's ICIA truck and field meet in New York. Penn State was the winner of the meet, dethroning second-place finisher Manhattan College...