Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having saved the boy's life. Last week Dr. Kris, 58, rudely shocked the U.S., which tends to hero-worship its doctors, by sending Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hooper Sr. a bill for professional services. The Hoopers make $5,460 a year, he as a highway department truck driver, she as a telephone operator. Amount of the bill...
Without Orders. Most Moslems went into hiding. But one Moslem truck driver, accelerating to get away, knocked down and killed a European woman. The mob dragged the driver out of his cab, beat him senseless. A soldier killed him with a long burst from his submachine gun. On the city's seafront boulevard the mob halted traffic, permitted European cars to pass, then spotted a red-capped Moslem atop a beer truck. Dragging him down, they battered him to death with beer bottles, were about to loot the truck when they discovered that the driver was French. Apologizing, they...
...Another truck appeared with three Moslem occupants. Two escaped to safety behind a group of French parachutists observing the scene. The third, unable to get out of the driver's cab quickly enough, was battered to death...
...happy-go-lucky migrant workers in the flimsy canvas-topped truck were a typical grab-bag assortment from among the 12,000 Deep South Negro laborers who annually sweep northward with the spring to range through North Carolina. It was green-bean-picking time, and this Florida-recruited group had spent some three weeks in the state sweating through the day to feed the canneries, bedding down at night like nomads-men, women and children-in a temporary camp near Mount Olive. Now, en route from the camp to the fields at Dunn, they were rocking along nine miles from...
Squinting down the highway, Gilbert Robert Peters, 25, at the wheel of a potato-laden tractor-trailer, saw the old flat-bed lumbering into the intersection, hit his brakes in a 147-ft. skid. The heavy tractor slammed into the rear of the workers' truck, threw the truck's people like broken jackstraws across the highway and into the ditches. Twelve of the crumpled people along route 301 were killed outright by the crushing fall; two more were burned alive in a bright ball of gasoline-fed flame. By week's end 20 of the migrants, including...