Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have rolled across the Chinese border since the Reds began rising to power. They ask only freedom and often get little more ($1 a day is considered a good wage in Hong Kong). Recently Wen Ko, a cultured former government official from Hunan, was crushed to death by a truck-while shoveling dirt as an earth coolie. To keep the flow of immigration under control, Hong Kong put into effect last March a quota that, in effect, admits one Chinese for every one who returns to China. The colonial service does its best to take care of them...
James Gill, driver of the truck which was on the left side of the road, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter...
...driver of the truck admitted that the accident was his fault; he was indicted for involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving...
...injured in a highway accident. On his way home from Harvard, where he is a sophomore, John was driving his father's 1955 Chevrolet sedan on U.S. Highway 20, just east of Goshen, Ind., with three fellow Harvard students as passengers. As he drove over a hill, a truck, passing another at 50 m.p.h., smashed head-on into the car. Two young men sitting beside young Stevenson were killed, and one in the back seat was hurt; John's right kneecap was shattered, his lower jaw was broken, and three of his upper teeth were knocked out. When...
...this summit after a decade of steady climbing. In 1946, on sales of roughly $900 million, it lost $8,000,000. It rode into the black the next year with a net income of $63 million, almost quadrupled the figure by last year with $228 million. Passenger-car and truck sales last year were 1,991,000, or 30% of the U.S. auto industry's total v. G.M.'s 50% and Chrysler's 13%. In the first nine months of this year, net income of $312 million was well above last year...