Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herbert Williams, an eleventh-grade dropout from Little Rock, Ark., schools, went to Chicago in 1946 to seek his fortune. Over the next 28 years, he worked as a bus dispatcher, bus driver and truck driver. But he never felt comfortable living in Chicago. He resented the discrimination that for years barred him from North Side nightclubs. He found the people unfriendly and the pace too fast. Says he: "It is a big rat race, all hustle and bustle...
...without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
...Frixes sell nearly all their produce at a giant red white and blue roadside farm stand that Frix built himself. But when few customers visit the stand, Frix piles the produce into his pickup truck and drives north to Atlanta's Farmers Market, sometimes sleeping in the truck for several nights until all the peaches and vegetables are sold. Last year his total sales came to $16,100, out of which he netted a mere $3,720. Outlays for sprays, seed and fertilizer ate up $10,000 his two aging tractors cost another...
...police were called in by management officials to allow a company truck to leave the property. When the police opened up the crowd of strikers to let the truck through, strikers alleged that the police used unnecessary force in clearing...
...stunned the country: a busload of 26 children from the small California farming community of Chowchilla had disappeared. The youngsters and their driver had been kidnaped by three masked men brandishing pistols. The victims were driven to a gravel quarry 100 miles away and forced into an abandoned trailer truck buried 6 ft. underground. Sixteen hours later the captives managed to dig themselves out and were soon rescued. The FBI quickly interrogated them but found no answer to the question: Who were the abductors...