Word: truck
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Died. Virgil Munday Chapman, 55, Democratic Senator from Kentucky since 1949, for 22 years before that a Representative from Kentucky's Bourbon County, who generally voted with the Administration on foreign issues, against it on domestic ones; after a motor collision with a truck; in Bethesda...
Another offender was put through the five-minute process. Then two youths heard the charge against them of drunkenness and damaging property belonging to the city of Cambridge, "valued less than $100." The truck window they had kicked out cost $10.85. They did it because one of the them was to report to the Navy for induction the morning after. Unlike the previous scoundrels, they had no previous offenses...
...police had promised protection to the workers, but trouble started before the workers reached the plant. Armed hoodlums set fire to a La Prensa truck drawn up outside its garage, slashed the tires of three others. As the vanguard of unarmed workers swung into the final block, gun-toting thugs fanned out across the street and began to fire. One Prensa worker was killed, 14 others injured. Other workers, screaming "Assassins!" at two unheeding cops, grabbed up sticks and pipes and pursued the goons. Then, entering the plant, they set right to work...
Peron's proletarians acclaimed his action and thundered for more. The bank-clerks' union swore never to cash another La Prensa, check, the petroleum-workers' union never to fuel another La Prensa truck. Eva Peron's General Confederation of Labor proclaimed the Peronista program : expropriate La Prensa forthwith...
...didn't want to steal cars, but I didn't have no transportation to get out in the country and rob stores at night, so I had to steal cars fo get to my jobs." In Elwin, 111., a gang of men in three automobiles and a truck pulled up to an appliance store, spent two hours looting the place, politely told the manager's wife before making off with her jewelry and $3,500 in cash and assorted appliances: "We have to do this. This is our business...