Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many "near accidents" from dozing while driving. Another insisted that he was not really a dangerous driver because a "close shave" would wake him and he had not yet had a serious accident. One of the sons had been disciplined in the Army for sleeping on duty, became a truck driver (he kept the windows open even in winter to stay awake); he fell asleep twice during the Mayo interview. One of his sisters has the knack of napping while standing...
...houses is that carpenters resist using prefabricated panels, painters resist automatic sprayers (sometimes by demanding double wages), and bricklayers and plasterers sometimes set minuscule production quotas. From the job-short 1930s to 1956, a University of Michigan study found, the efficiency of U.S. construction workers dropped 10% to 20%. Truck drivers often draw eight hours' pay for a 5½-hour trip, simply because the trip once took eight hours. Grace Line needs only ten men on a conveyor, but is forced by the International Longshoremen's Association to hire 21, four of whom do nothing but take...
...vote. That same day he telephoned union leaders in each swing man's home district, urged protests against the Congressman's "betrayal" of labor. Commanding one A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworker official to put the heat on a New Jersey Congressman, Zagri spoke like a crusader on a trailer-truck parking lot: "Get a delegation down here tomorrow morning and tear his door down." He provided his agents with sample form letters to send in, urged wires, calls and protest meetings, brought non-Teamster unionists to Washington to badger Congressmen, and did most of the talking...
...hours last week. Wild Horse Annie told her story to 16 interested members of a House Judiciary subcommittee. The mustangs are flushed from their hilly retreats by low-flying airplanes, whose pilots pursue the animals across the prairies until they are near exhaustion. Then trucks take up the chase. Finally, the horses are lassoed with ropes weighted with truck tires or other heavy objects. The horses drag the weights around until they drop. Then they are hobbled, hauled into the truck. Wild Horse Annie documented all this with photographs that she took from the top of her car, while...
...Lauer was first out of the blocks in the 110-meter high hurdles. Bending far forward as he cleared the barriers, then snapping his body erect as he hit the cinders, Grasshopper Lauer was all alone at the tape, gasped in astonishment : "It was like having hold of a truck...