Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truck lines and bus companies would get unlimited rations. Some 6,000 local boards, consisting of both unpaid volunteers and full-time paid workers, would decide who got how much...
...take precautions in getting to his job as general manager of the Ford subsidiary, Transax, in Cordoba. When he left for work on Thanksgiving Day, his chauffeur-driven car was followed by another car carrying two well-armed bodyguards. As the two cars prepared to pass a parked trailer truck obstructing one side of the road, a red Chevrolet pickup truck flashed past them, then swung across the road, completely blocking it. From behind, two Fiats drew up, cutting off any retreat. The ambush was complete...
...well-dressed man got out of the cabin of the trailer truck and opened up on Swint's car with a machine...
Howell barnstormed the state in a van truck called the "Howell Cannon-ball," promising to repeal an unpopular sales tax on food and nonprescription drugs. It had been enacted during Godwin's first term as Governor (1966-70). By September, Howell had a ten-point lead in the polls. That galvanized Godwin's lackluster early efforts. He started vigorously attacking Howell for being pro busing, in favor of gun controls and against the state's right-to-work law. When Howell tried to explain his previous stands on those issues-for example, he denied that he favored...
After showing an ABC press card, Rainie said, the ABC impersonator asked Coppersmith and conductor Thomas Everett to help the other four Brown students, who claimed to be Crimson reporters, load the drum into their truck...