Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again and again, bands of husky truck drivers plunged out into the storm, returned with more lost souls. One man, struggling through the waist-high drifts toward the restaurant, fell dead of a heart attack. Two Amish farmers returned to their truck, brought back a load of bologna and cheese, sold part of it to adults, gave the rest to the children. The stares grew harder, the words sharper...
...Zomba on official business, the only hotel accommodations he could get were 40 miles from town. The rajah has his hair cut by his pretty wife because, he says bitterly, "it has been made painfully clear to me that if I go to a barbershop, some white bricklayer or truck driver will object to sitting next to an Indian...
Having given Mack his say, the subcommittee began boring in. What had he ever done to justify his share in the Stembler-Shelden Insurance Agency? Well, as a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission he had given the company a commission list of bus and truck carriers that might be interested in buying insurance. Did Mack not think it was at least indiscreet to accept an interest in Stembler-Shelden while a member of the Florida commission? The remarkable reply: "Well, I do not know. If Mr. Whiteside had given me $20,000 on which he paid...
...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...
...help pay company debts, the board will try to sell two of its seven subsidiaries, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel Co. Then it hopes to build up its most promising subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney Co., a machine-toolmaker (no kin to the aircraft-engine firm), while it figures out what to do with Penn-Texas' 46% block of Fairbanks, Morse stock...