Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students in regular classwork until midafternoon. Then the boarders get cracking again. The boys polish floors, mow lawns, repair buildings, haul garbage, plow the fields. Girls swarm into the boys' dormitory with mops and pails, cook dinner using produce from the school's 350-acre truck garden. After dinner: study hall, lights out by 10:30 at the latest. Saturday morning is for more work; Sunday hikes exercise those who still need...
Most river traffic is still in commonplace bulk items for which barge rates are unbeatably low (an average of 2 mills a ton. v. 16 mills by rail and 6.5?by truck). Grain barges moving down to New Orleans from Minneapolis pass inbound South American bauxite ore moving upriver to Kaiser, Alcoa and Olin Mathieson aluminum plants on the Ohio. The bauxite ore is transshipped from seagoing ships at New Orleans, but recently Captain Jesse Brent, head of a Greenville, Miss, towing company, bought a shallow-draft, 180-ft. vessel in which he hauls insecticides, feed and fertilizers direct from...
...Joseph Stanley Sanders, 20, born in a south Los Angeles slum, is the son of a city garbage-truck driver. Stan's big brother Ed chose one way up-boxing-and died after being knocked out in his ninth pro fight. Stan's way led to top marks at mostly Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept...
...nine new Meyers children-five daughters and four sons ranging in age from 13 to two-had their last Christmas with their mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baker, at their home in Battle Lake. Minn. Three weeks later they were orphans, when the Bakers' pickup truck flipped over and killed both parents. In Charlotte, N.C.. Donald, an executive at the local plant of the Celanese Corp.. read the newspaper account of the accident and at once knew what to do. His wife quickly agreed. "There is room for them here-in our home...
Most European drivers on principle ignore the traffic laws, which they regard as an abridgment of their uncivil rights. However, they heed one caution signal: the red-and-white license plates of a car or truck from Belgium. Alone among Western European nations, Belgium does not issue drivers' licenses, give traffic instruction in its schools, or even demand that car owners show rudimentary knowledge of the rules of the road...