Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the false bottom of a rattling old truck sprawls the little group of terrified men wedged head by foot, unable to move, forbidden to speak, scarcely able to breathe. Inches below, the well-worn tires jounce over a foreign road. Inches above, the cargo of pigs and sheep shifts nervously with every bounce, their hooves clattering on the floor, their droppings seeping through...
There are easier ways to get from Portugal to France, but none more popular-or expensive. The truck is the next-to-last leg of a sordid underground railroad traveled every month by some 2,500 Portuguese peasants being smuggled into France to look for work. The price of a one-way ticket: between...
Three Texas businessmen have mounted him on an air-conditioned 2½-ton truck with white aluminum walls enclosing a swiveling barber chair and the usual complement of up-to-the-minute accoutrements, including a television set. Mobil Barber Shop is what they call it, and the original idea, launched last week in San Antonio after a survey of housewives, was to specialize in children - thereby saving mothers the chore and possible embarrassment of escorting them to that last bastion of masculinity, once known as the tonsorial parlor...
...that once was Greece's. Their family-owned National Motor Co. of Athens selected a site in the port city of Patras, where it will build a factory in September, hire nearly 1,000 workers and begin production before year's end of a three-wheeled utility truck called the "Pully," designed by Fiat. Their initial production goal: Hephaestus' 20 vehicles a day. So many foreign orders have already been received that the Kondogouris brothers have earmarked the 6,000 vehicles they will produce in 1966 for export to Common Market countries; they hope to raise production...
Greece's first automotive factory, began assembling a German-licensed farm truck. In 1963 they sold their Salonika plant to Chrysler International for $1,800,000, a deal that gave them enough to start their $2,000,000 Pully venture without outside financing. The Pully, which will be powered by a two-cylinder Fiat engine, weighs 1,100 Ibs., costs less than $1,000 and will-according to National-"motorize the masses." Once the Pully gets going, the company will start work on a small passenger line -which, because the Greeks do not quite have a word...