Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well Packed. The trunk was addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, and had passed safely through customs because it was tagged "Diplomatic Mail." When it began shouting for help, two Egyptian diplomats grabbed it and pushed it into the Volkswagen truck that had brought it to the field. As police and customs officers tried to stop them, another Egyptian kept babbling that the trunk contained musical instruments and that the sounds probably were caused by accordions still filled with air. The truck raced away from the loading area, but it was soon caught by pursuing motorcycle police...
...News; the maneuver only further antagonized both papers, which bargain together, and Frazee's delegation was stopped by a padlocked pressroom door. Then Jimmy Hoffa put in his unsolicited 2? worth. If the papers could somehow publish without pressmen, said the Teamster boss, the truck drivers would deliver them...
Garbage collectors often interrupted their rummaging to read the cartoons in the back of the papers and magazines. Ultimately the last bit of trash was swallowed by a garbage truck, and a straggling Cliffle, clutching papers in one arm and a bent pipe of artistic value in the other, sighed and headed home...
Cronin admitted that a truck would have to stop beyond the loading entry and then back up the wrong way on a one-way street to turn into the dock, but said this was not really "maneuvering...
...getting their fair share of overtime during a certain period should be paid the equivalent amount in cash even if they had not worked any overtime. Ford would have none of this, and the strike was on. It immediately cut Ford's passenger car production by 16% , its truck output by 34%. Its continuance not only would threaten the industry's fond hopes to run up another record auto year, but could trigger the dampening reaction in the economy that economists have been fearing since the beginning of the labor negotiations-which have certainly turned...