Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benedict makes a quick trip by pickup truck around his 3,500 acres of wheat and sugar beets. At each of many stops he whips out a pocket calculator and does some rapid figuring before giving the hired hands orders on, say, exactly how much pesticide to spray on each field. By 8 a.m. he is heading home to start the most important part of his day: several hours spent at a rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output...
...water sampler" early in order to collect an additional $5500 annually as a tax assessor. Howe knocked off early from his 8 a.m.-to-4 p.m., $270-a-week job twice a month for a year, Snedeker reported. Snedeker also found that Howe was using an MDC truck for his separate assessing duties...
...ringside. Not so, say the two boys' parents, sitting together after the fight. "They're good friends and fighting all the time anyway," grins Shawn's father, Victor, 28, a carpenter. "I think it will help them mature." Adds Dan Casarez Sr., 27, a Tucson truck driver: "It'll toughen them up. I'm learning to box here too, so I can teach this guy. He'll be my champion...
...Billie Sol Estes was paroled from a federal prison after serving six years for amassing a $ 150 million business empire through fraudulent land deals and nonexistent fertilizer tanks. He went to work in fundamentalist Abilene, Texas, as an overseer on his brother's cattle ranch and as a truck dispatcher for a petroleum company. Estes regularly assured his parole officer that, as required by the terms of his release, he was abstaining from business deals. He was happily working as a manual laborer, he said, and had "even washed trucks and fixed flats...
...China's best department store. Called Number One, the stark, cavernous but well-stocked emporium attracts 100,000 shoppers a day. There are always eager crowds, but no lines, around the toy counter, which offers such items as a huge stuffed panda for $47, a solidly built dump truck for about $4.75, and a battery-powered submachine gun for $6.25. A Shanghai-made black-and-white TV set costs around $428, a solid-state radio $33. A nice chess set goes for $8.50, good basketball shoes for $5.25. The high-collared Chung-shan chuang, the so-called Mao jacket...