Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago in the late afternoon. The drenching rain flooded the paved depression where State Street dips under a bridge out on the sprawling South Side. It forced a trucker named Mel Wilson to drive slowly as he hauled 8,000 gallons of gasoline into the city in a heavy truck & trailer rig. It kept Loop crowds huddled in doorways until just before Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7078 came by. Then the rain ended, and No. 7078-one of a speedy new type which Chicagoans call "Green" Hornets"-was quickly jammed...
...Wilson's gasoline truck rumbled north toward the Loop and the crowded streetcar clanged south on State Street almost as if they were guided by an evil hand. Both got to a rail turnoff near 63rd Street at the same instant. A flagman waved a warning at the streetcar-a switch had been opened to detour trolley traffic around the flooded pavement ahead. But No. 7078 did not stop...
...smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
French Commander in Chief Marcel Carpentier aims to sweep Ho Chi Minh's men from the lower, heavily populated Mekong and Red River valleys. These are the best rice-producing areas and consequently the best source of rebel supply. By airlift and truck convoy, the French maintain a line of forts at the Chinese border, where aid could flow...
...boats had further cause to suspect the Singhs. While he and a party of fishermen were returning from north-coast Maracas Bay with their catch, he reported, a group of men led by Boysie Singh's 20-year-old son Anthony "Sonny" Singh tried to hold up his truck. The approach of another truck drove them...