Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are virtually no traffic lights or street signs along the crowded two-lane thoroughfare, a "truck route" connecting Mass Ave. and North Cambridge, which has seen two pedestriansdeaths in the last year...
Last Thursday evening, a seven-year-old boy was hit by a truck and hospitalized. Residents blocked the street off with wooden barricades throughout the weekend, forcing police to reroute traffic...
...concessions. The U.S., he said, should lay out as much as $10 billion, if necessary, to construct a "paradise" for Vietnamese victims of the war. Today Matsuda, who once owned an apartment house and a prosperous mail-order business in body-building equipment, is alone and broke, driving a truck in Yokohama. Because of his idealistic extravagance, his wife divorced him, taking their sons with...
...supplies of Irish bacon and eggs into Britain, dumping the goods into harbors and scattering them on beaches. As supplies of bananas, oranges, grapes and vegetables dwindled all over the United Kingdom, prices rose; some meat cost as much as a shilling (12?) a pound more. Dutch and Belgian truck farmers and shippers complained of losing millions of dollars. The government could, of course, use troops to move goods, and preliminary legal moves were made in this direction. But such an action would sorely test the patience and patriotism of other workers, and Britons remembered uneasily the 1926 General Strike...
...closing down a branch. He reduced the number of divisions from 23 to 14, pared the work force from 90,400 to 79,500, and sold off holdings in low-yield properties, including a hotel and department store in Essen, the Krupps' soot-filled home city. The Krupp truck plant, which lost $7,500,000 in its last year of operation, was closed. Coal production, long a loser, was reduced-and the last wholly-owned Krupp mine was sold off last year...