Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would ever be coming back again. A veteran of the Polish underground and an alumnus of a series of Nazi prisoner-of-war camps, he was studying at Purdue when a Danish classmate persuaded him to try his hand at running a carnival stand. The two men got a truck from a concession agency and joined the Northern Exposition Shows, "touring Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. At his "foot-long"' (hot dog) stand, Krassowski not only developed into an authority on carnies, he became a carny-a title conferred only upon those who have been fully accepted...
...make something of yourself.'' But. says Jimmy sadly, "I just couldn't cut the mustard. So then my grandmother, she bought me a uke and said, 'Jimmy, try this thing,' and boy I really cut the mustard!" Three years ago Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high wit of a local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled...
...gonna pass a truck . on the hill ahead...
...latest News campaign began when Inquirer Truck Driver Henry J. Turner, 54, was beaten to death one night on the Inquirer parking lot. Turner's own paper headlined the news of the killing briefly, then dropped it. The News fastened to the story like a limpet. It charged that Turner's death resulted from his fight against loan sharks, "believed to be minor executives" of the Inquirer who were battening on circulation employees. Moreover, trumpeted the News, Philadelphia police have said, off the record, that they know who Turner's murderer is. The tabloid clamored for action...
Last week, while the Inquirer kept mum, the News front-paged an announcement that it was donating $500 to start a fund for the family of the murdered truck driver. In the same issue the News ran an interview with District Attorney Victor Blanc. The district attorney charged that the motive in Turner's murder "involves payroll padding and padding of overtime pay on the Inquirer." Added Blanc: "The loan shark was a side issue, but we will go through that also. I hope we will be able to make an arrest before too many days-an arrest...