Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directly to a railroad loading station or tipple) sub-leased their coal rights to smaller operators, often union miners. These men set up small, one-tunnel mines producing from 50-150 tons per day of coal and employing usually no more than a dozen men. Coal was taken by truck from the mine to the railroad loading tipple, which was normally owned by the man who leased the rights to the mine...
Cleveland's strike began with a surprise November walkout by delivery truck drivers demanding higher wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...
What irritates Japanese automen is that Toyo Kogyo owes its success to a tiny and unconventional vehicle: a three-wheeled truck that is easy to operate over Japan's narrow roads, easy to park on its crowded streets, and so simple to drive that only a motorcycle operator's license is needed...
Irritating Switch. Toyo Kogyo was only a small machine shop when Owner Jujiro Matsuda, inspired by the sight of delivery boys' three-wheeled bikes, decided in the early 1930s to make a three-wheeled truck. His inexpensive Mazda truck was a boon to small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small...
...were no match for fighters who had trained at the HSA Karate Institute. In a matter of seconds, the carton containing the Geburtstagfestspieltorte had rolled down the steps of Claverly into Mt. Auburn Street, where it was crushed flat by the wheels of an HSA Ollie Orbit Ice Cream truck that careened around the corner of Holyoke Street...