Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration office right here." In Wichita Falls, he claimed that Texas got $873 million from the Agriculture Department last year. In Little Rock, he paid tribute to Democratic Congressman Jim Trimble's pork-barreling skills by marveling, "The way it looks, he's been backing up his truck to the Treasury...
...Murderer!" Whenever a truckload of livestock approached Equity gates, the angry farmers massed together, blocked the driveway, sometimes violently rocked the truck. Nearly 20 trucks turned back; other drivers prudently pulled off the highway to wait it all out. But Ivan Mueller, 40, a Cecil, Wis., hauler, drove his Ford truck steadily down State Highway 117. A pistol lay on the seat beside him. He swung into the Equity driveway and stopped a few feet from the gates...
...Mueller sat still. "Tip him over!" came the roar. A few sheriff's deputies and state troopers were on hand by then. They cleared a narrow path through the mass, ordered the gates opened. Mueller inched forward. Men in the crowd were pressed tight between the slowly moving truck and a fence. Suddenly, two men-Melvin Cummings, 43, and Howard Falk, 64 -fell beneath the truck's rear wheels. Both were killed...
...crowd charged into the Equity yard after Mueller, shouting "Murderer!" Men swarmed over the truck cab, shattered the windshield with their bare fists. Inside, Mueller grabbed his pistol, but lawmen fought through, took him into custody and charged him with homicide by reckless conduct...
Still smarting from those experiences, N.F.O. adherents this time set out to make their boycott stick. Besides Bonduel, the Midwest has recently counted many deeds of destruction. Barns have burned in the night, livestock buying stations have been bombed, truck drivers have been stopped and threatened at road blocks, roadside snipers have fired out of the dark at speeding trucks, and at least one market-bound highway route has been sabotaged with a plank bristling with broken sickle blades. In Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota there is talk of calling out the National Guard...