Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snowbound Buffalo (see THE NATION), she found that trains had stopped running, all highways were shut down, and no flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations to the stricken city. "Buffalo was a mess," she reports-streets unplowed, cars buried in snow, people carting groceries home on sleds. "The very fact of being there made you part of the people...
...like it." Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread to eight others before heroic firemen could drag hoses through four blocks of drifted roads. One truck driver inched his way for two days to cover two miles, to bring fuel to the elderly at the Erie County Home and Infirmary...
...rare snows have melted, and the record chill has receded in Florida. But the truck gardens in the far south of the state lay devastated, their tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers wiped out by the cold. Some migrant workers are heading northward, searching for new crops to pick. There is work in the citrus groves of central Florida-hard, chilly work-as growers race to salvage what they can of an orange crop that was 30% to 40% destroyed by the Big Freeze. You can see the damage from the air-the telltale brownish gray of damaged trees edges...
...Like a truck that suddenly hits an icy patch of road, the U.S. economic recovery that had been picking up speed for weeks has begun to skid. The bitter cold and unrelenting snows that have gripped the U.S. east of the Rockies are throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely...
...successive range of steep moguls. In the drifting snow, the racers bobbed and weaved, plunging from view only to emerge again and fly across a farmer's driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along...