Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eight months ago, a guard had found Woods and some other men digging a big hole in a gravel pit that was owned by the suspect's father. The kidnap victims were held in the body of a trailer truck half-buried in the pit, and the guard remembered the previous incident and tipped the police about Woods. Police now believe that Woods not only bought the van in which the children and driver were held but that he also purchased the two Navy surplus panel trucks used to carry them to the site...
...only ones who serve jail sentences." When he announced his presidential candidacy in December 1974, Carter inveighed against Government that is run from "an ivory tower," against "gross tax inequities," against "a business executive who can charge off a $50 luncheon on a tax return and a truck driver who cannot deduct his $1.50 sandwich...
Police officials speculated that the kidnapers not only spent more than $10,000 to underwrite the ghoulish venture but also planned it in chilling detail. The kidnapers took care to stock the big truck with water, blankets and a small chemical toilet, and to install two air vents before it was buried. They apparently spent a good deal of time in Chowchilla studying the movements of the schoolchildren; when they finally ambushed the school bus, they did so at a place and a time when they knew nobody would be around...
This fierce resistance permeates the park's ethnic clans. Many of Marquette's homeowners have already moved out of other neighborhoods that turned all black, taking heavy financial losses in the process. Less than four years ago, Carol Smith, a secretary, and her husband Bill, 33, a truck driver, sold their dwelling in now black West Englewood, a few blocks away, at a substantial loss. Says she: "Many of us have fled two or three times before. We have nowhere else to move...
...breaking ranks with the rest of the industry, as when he doubled the warranty period on German Fords to a full year with unlimited mileage. Critics cannot deny the remarkable U-turn he brought off at German Ford, but some prophesy that he will have trouble in his new truck job. "It could be his death chair," says one colleague at German Ford almost wistfully. But that seems most unlikely; Lutz's admirers are forecasting that he will become head of all Ford operations in Europe within two years...