Word: truck
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Important Clue. To police, Mrs. Hawkins could only describe her attacker as a Negro who had been drinking. But a neighbor came forward with a significant clue. At about 4:30 a.m., she had seen a Negro drive away in a grocery truck which had been parked near the Hawkins home. A truck had been reported missing by a grocery firm, along with Driver Willie McGee, who also had $20 of the firm's money. An alarm was sent out for McGee, a wiry, 31-year-old father of four. He was arrested the next afternoon and, according...
...Syrians. They charged that the Israelis had abused the 1949 armistice agreement, that draining the land would give the Israelis a military advantage. When the Israelis ignored a U.N. order to call off their tractors, the Syrians began taking potshots at them. Syrian troops shot up an Israeli truck, killed seven policemen...
...forklift truck, major instrument of the change, is at least 32 years old. But it was not until World War II, when the U.S. Navy used forklift trucks to perform prodigious feats of loading & unloading battle cargo, that U.S. industry woke up to the fact that it had been squandering its manpower by doing most of its lifting by hand. It was paying $9 billion a year, roughly one-fourth of the total U.S. factory payroll, just to pick things up and set them down...
Many of the fleeing South Koreans tossed their weapons away, on the road back to Chunchon. Others drove calves and oxen before them. Army and Marine truck drivers were trying to get their six-by-sixes up the road with rations and ammunition for the front. The grunts and lowing of the cattle mingled with shouts, curses, and the clash of transmission gears. Desperate marines tried to turn the fleeing ROKs around-but failed...
Squad Captain Charles F. Walther of the South Omaha truck waited three years for a chance to prove his skill. He got it last week when a young (22) father, Ralph Nielsen, called the fire department for help: his baby was choking to death. In five minutes, Walther and his squad dashed up to the Nielsens' house, found baby Thomas, aged five months, blue in the face. His pulse and breathing had stopped. There was not a minute to lose...