Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark green 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville hardtop, in the parking lot outside the fashionable Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, 15 miles northwest of Detroit. But there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa, 62, the stubby, cocky, belligerent figure who was as tough as any truck driver on the road and who loved to wield the power of the Teamsters, the strongest and most feared labor union...
...company. To get the transportation debate on track, Arco's admen resorted to some minor hokum. They introduced TV and print audiences to two fictional idea contributors played by professional actors: "Juan Martinez," who proposed a 190-m.p.h. train, and "Amy Farrell," who suggested truck-drawn land ferries that would carry cars between cities...
...located on Brookline Avenue in the middle of a group of hospitals--would clearly have a serious adverse environmental impact in the Medical School-Hospital area and in the City of Boston and the surrounding area, regardless of what steps are taken to minimize that impact. The many large trucks--an average of 18 or more each day--required for the delivery of fuel oil to the plant would create substantial additional truck traffic in that area of the city, adding to the traffic congestion and parking problems in that area, causing damage to the hospital and residential streets...
...Consisting of New England Petroleum Corp. and some 40 affiliates, Carey's company supplies oil to New York State utilities and others along the Eastern seaboard. It also explores in the North Sea, pumps crude in Abu Dhabi, refines in the Bahamas, ships round the world by tanker, truck and pipeline, and owns storage terminals with a capacity of 25 million bbl. Most of the Carey Corp.'s business is with industrial customers. But a subsidiary, Burns Bros., supplies heating oil to New York metropolitan-area homes. In Canada, the group's Caloil affiliate sells gasoline under...
...resplendent in white linen suit, white shoes and lavender tie, had planned for everything, down to the brass band waiting to toot out a welcome at the Las Vegas station. Or had he? Passengers taking in the scenery suddenly noticed a 1923 Chrysler touring car and a 1925 brewery truck following the train on an adjacent road. Rival Hoodlum Barney Weiss apparently had dispatched his own welcoming party to greet Big Jim. From a machine gun mounted on the back of the truck, a Weiss torpedo named Charley Ice fired several bursts at the passing coaches. Two other goons opened...