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- Movie Poster, "Convoy," 1978 - Traveling the open highway, talking on citizens' band (CB) radios, encounters with corrupt police officials, and exploding cargoes punctuate the 1978 movie <em>Convoy</em>. The reality of truck driving, however, is far less exciting. Truck driving remains demanding, sometimes dangerous, and often boring work.
- 1978
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Movie Poster, "Convoy," 1978
Traveling the open highway, talking on citizens' band (CB) radios, encounters with corrupt police officials, and exploding cargoes punctuate the 1978 movie Convoy. The reality of truck driving, however, is far less exciting. Truck driving remains demanding, sometimes dangerous, and often boring work.
- "An American Event All Star Benefit Concert: Farm Aid," September 22, 1985 - High interest rates on loans and declining farm income destabilized the farm economy during the 1980s. Heavily mortgaged farmers lost everything, and suicide rates escalated. Recording artists Willie Nelson, John Cougar Mellencamp and Neil Young joined with other singers to stage the first Farm Aid concert at the University of Illinois on 22 September 1985.
- September 22, 1985
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"An American Event All Star Benefit Concert: Farm Aid," September 22, 1985
High interest rates on loans and declining farm income destabilized the farm economy during the 1980s. Heavily mortgaged farmers lost everything, and suicide rates escalated. Recording artists Willie Nelson, John Cougar Mellencamp and Neil Young joined with other singers to stage the first Farm Aid concert at the University of Illinois on 22 September 1985.