Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck arrived at the school and soldiers loaded the dead and dying onto it. They were dumped into nearby woods. It was afternoon before we reached the school and found the survivors and the bodies of three men who had died since. The Vietnamese had had nothing to eat or drink and no medical treatment, even though there is a hospital in Takeo. Both of us had just one thought: to save at least some of the survivors. "Please stay with us," an old man wearing a Catholic cross pleaded. "They say we are Viet Cong...
...spattered bandstand, we crammed four kids into the bucket seat in the front of one car. Three men got into the back seat, one of them terribly wounded in his stomach, chest and limbs. Another, for whom there was simply no more room, told us solemnly: "Please rent a truck in Phnom-Penh to take us out. We will pay you for all your trouble." His two sons had been killed the night before and his brother was lying badly wounded on the cement...
Alaska: The North Slope oil strike has produced the sort of rip-roaring boom that is just a memory in most of the "South 48" states. While unemployment still runs high among the Eskimos and the Aleuts, the oil workers' only problem is getting time off. North Slope truck drivers earn $76 a day, Monday through Friday, and $100 a day on Saturday and Sunday-but they work six weeks straight before knocking off two weeks to rest...
Memories of Model A. Henry Ford would like to break into the small but growing Communist automotive market. His company's subsidiaries in Europe already sell cars and trucks to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria. For their part, the Russians need more Western help in developing their car-and-truck industry. Fiat is putting up a huge auto plant in the Soviet city of Togliatti-which Ford toured last week-but production is two years behind schedule...
...Russians still remember the life-saving performance of the 362,000 American trucks that they received during World War II under Lend-Lease. Oldtimers also recall that in 1930, under the original Henry Ford, the company helped the Soviets build a plant that for a while turned out the Model A. The Soviets now are getting ready to build a $2.2 billion automotive plant in the Tatar Republic between Moscow and the Urals; they say that it may become the world's largest truck factory (the biggest so far was opened by Ford Motor last August in Louisville...