Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...
...want," Derek bought himself a secondhand truck. That meant applying to the Newcastle authorities for a carrier license...
Sadly Derek sold his truck, bought some ledgers, and went back to work with his horse and cart. Said he, in a forthright and unwitting commentary that revealed much about what is wrong with Britain's economy and its laws for the protection of the entrenched: "If they work as hard as I do, they've got nothing to worry about...
...TRUCK RATES will go up for second time this year because Jimmy Hoffa's central states conference teamsters are riding toward another pay raise. Midwest truckers are resigned to a boost in present $2.34 hourly minimum, possibly as much...
...third-floor composing room of the Chicago Sun-Times last week, a forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it into a waiting truck on Franklin Street. Twenty minutes later the Linotype, its lead still molten, clattered back into action at the new $20 million Sun-Times building on the north side of the Chicago River, six blocks away...