Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistical omens, if only they could count on the continuation of consumer confidence-the supreme factor in auto sales. Not only has that confidence been worn thin by all the jabberwocky about inflation and taxes, but since January the industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their...
...resort to the "technicality" of running his wife for Governor in the Democratic primary. A pleasant, ingenuous mother of four, she had married George in 1943 when she was a 16-year-old dime-store clerk and he was a 23-year-old law-school graduate driving a dump truck. Until Wallace made her a candidate, Lurleen had been a bashful Statehouse homebody-the role to which she would like to revert...
...Cambodian border had received heavy weapons fire from Cambodian territory, and were ultimately forced to silence it with howitzer fire. Even more interesting evidence of Sihanouk's cooperation with the Communists was the discovery of a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam-a chain of truck roads, bicycle trails and rivers that provides transport for supplies moving north and east out of Cambodia to some of the most important fighting areas of South Viet Nam. It has come to be known as the "Sihanouk Trail...
Rallying around a City gartage truck, members of Community Litter Elimination Action Now (CLEAN), lined up outside the Union in preparation for their anti-trash parade last weekend. Sweeping down a ten-block area around Central Square, the CLEAN team, Cambridge's own white tornado, advertised the start of "Cleanup Week...
...parade will tramp down Mass Ave. until it nears Central Square, when the marchers will drop their placards for brooms and begin sweeping a ten-block area. Mr. Dirt, covered in newspapers, will be swept into the truck with the rest of the trash as the march approaches its goal, City Hall, where the clean-up will stop...