Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter had consulted with Rosalynn on the clothing, books and toys that would go to Washington. He helped load the boxes and Amy's doll house aboard a rented truck that was driven north by one of Brother Billy's warehouse employees, with a Secret Service escort. Before the truck reached the Plains town line, an urgent radio message summoned it back: Amy's bicycle had somehow been forgotten and had to be picked...
...hill in Jackson, Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...
...snow hit parts of Mississippi, which was undergoing its coldest winter in 17 years. Jackson had a record number of auto accidents as motorists unfamiliar with icy driving banged up their cars. The speaker of Mississippi's house of representatives dispatched a four-wheel-drive truck to round up stranded legislators...
...nearly did him in. They invested in a nightclub, and he gave her a '76 Pacer, "TV and sound" equipment, "a wardrobe worth thousands," a $7,500 bond and a $9,000 bank account. He also bought her brother a new truck and her mother a color-television...
More recently, the company bought control of a lackluster elevator company in Britain and an interest in a garbage-truck manufacturer in Belgium. Bywater defended these investments as steps toward creating "a Western technological base" for the company, but most Asians saw them as a flight of Malaysian-earned profits...