Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road. In Beechwood, Wis., Mrs. Joseph Hann bruised her leg in a collision involving a car, a truck, and the tavern in which she was sitting when she was knocked off her bar stool...
Fall from Grace. In Milwaukee, after being awarded a National Safety Council medal for two years of safe driving, Truck Driver George Pratt went to a ball game where he drank eight bottles of beer and a slug of whisky, adjourned to a tavern where he tossed down two more beers, headed for another saloon, missed a turn, caromed off a telephone pole, was robbed of his medal, called the cops, was sentenced to ten days...
...only after the U.S. cut off water, food and lights - the major invited the Russians to a formal conference at his office. At the conference, the Russians again refused to leave, but when they went back to their quarters, they found G.I.s busy loading their baggage into an Army truck...
Then Major Hartel approached, asked the Russians to follow the truck to the Soviet zone border at Enns Bridge, about 80 miles away. When the Russian driver, Sergeant Vasily Elistratov, refused to start the Russians' big black Mercedes, G.I.s dragged him from the driver's seat. A U.S. lieutenant took the wheel and drove the Russians to the border. When they arrived, one of the escorting Americans shook hands with Elistratov, remarked: "I'm sorry it had to happen this way." Said Sergeant Elistratov, with tears in his eyes, before he crossed into the Red zone...
...Daily Bread. In St. Joseph, Mo., a bakery salesman left a package of six rolls on the seat of his truck, returned to find in their place a bundle of religious tracts...