Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Driver...
...Cooper (the lorry driver...
...Manhattan a cinemaddict stumbled drowsily into a taxi, mumbled "Juarez," took 40 winks. When he woke, Driver William Lysaght was tooling through Philadelphia, hell-bent for Juarez, Mexico. The sleeper's expenses: taxi fare: $40.35; two useless theatre tickets...
...which he anticipated later inventors. Some of the contraptions: a jack (see cut); a turnspit driven by the draft of a chimney; a machine for cutting files and rasps; a printing press with movable type; an olive oil press such as is still used in Italy; a pile driver; an automatic saw; an automatic gear, like the differential in an automobile; a flying machine, whose bird-like wings were supposed to be powered by the operator, lying on his back and pumping with his feet...
...have lobbied for A. G. & E. but in Washington he is considered a lobbyist. A steely-eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...