Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dollar a Dozen. Main topics of conversation at these stops, the inspectors found, were sex and drugs. There was so much loose talk about the drugs that they soon knew dozens of places to buy them, though many truck drivers emphatically refused to touch the stuff. Drivers were not the only customers: at a gas station in Charlotte, N.C. an inspector saw a teen-age boy plunk down a dollar bill for a bag of a dozen bennies (Benzedrine tablets), which wholesale in large quantities for about $2 a thousand...
Concentrating in the Charleston (S.C.)-Charlotte-Atlanta triangle, where the amphetamine traffic seemed heaviest, two inspectors driving a borrowed, repainted Army trailer-truck spent six weeks making buys at the spots turned up in the preliminary survey. At one drugstore they had no trouble buying 2,000 pep pills, saying they wanted to peddle them to other drivers. But a second druggist was smarter: he took $55 from the inspectors for a thousand pills that turned out to be aspirin...
...Southeast has cooled considerably as a result of the drive, but the FDA is not kidding itself: the dangerous racket persists elsewhere, may be spreading. Even if a half-emptied bottle of co-pilots is found in the pocket of a driver who has been killed by driving his truck off the road, it is usually impossible to prove cause and effect. But traffic authorities and truck companies agree that this is a likely result when drivers dose themselves with bennies to stay awake while they burn up the roads, day and night, without rest. Many truck companies are posting...
...Ladyldllers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then los ing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...
Beyond the Call. In St. Marys, W. Va., after the operator refused to return his dime when he complained of a poor connection, Truck Driver Myles Milton yanked the phone off the wall, smashed it on the floor, told police: "I was tired...