Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortunate twist of fate, the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table daily were standing on a New Haven street corner when a truck carrying the day's editions of The Daily News pulled...
...glance down the columns discloses that the P/E ratios of shares on the New York Stock Exchange reach from a lowly 2 for Horizon Corp., a land developer, to an astronomical 725 for White Motor Corp., the heavy-duty-truck manufacturer. How can an investor make sense out of these seemingly incongruous figures? One key is to realize that a P/E ratio reflects, even more than current earnings, the market's anticipation of future profits...
When 20-year-old Ina Stephanie Weiner took off from her home in Miami early last September and headed for Montreal in her mother's panel truck, she said she was going to take along a friend and drop him off in New Jersey. A week later, in the farm lands of Somerset County, Md., Ina's badly beaten and decomposed body was found stuffed into her sleeping bag. Police charged that her New Jersey-bound friend, Henry King, 23, of Chesapeake, Va., had killed her, then stolen the truck and her belongings. King was eventually caught...
...leader admitted was designed "to turn the clock back to Sept. 4, 1970," the date of Allende's election-had begun to run out of steam. Faced with mounting economic losses, many shopkeepers have unshuttered their stores. Taxis and buses are running again. The government commandeered 1,500 trucks from striking truck operators and pro-government workers have managed to keep food supplies flowing at a tolerable 40% of the normal rate...
...almost approaches dereliction of duty. I just don't understand how [the case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid. "I am almost incredulous," exploded Patton...