Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything on Wheels. His principality now spreads from Canada to Mexico, from the Rockies to the Pacific. The unions encompassed by his Western Conference of Teamsters move virtually "everything on wheels" in the eleven western states. His men send enormous diesel rigs snarling across the Mojave Desert, drive hearses in Oakland, deliver laundry in Seattle, unload mining machinery in Butte...
...left Seattle's Broadway High School after three years to drive a laundry truck. During World War I he joined the Navy, was sent to Killingholme, England as a machinist's mate, and flew over the North Sea in lumbering Curtiss flying boats on anti-Zeppelin patrols. Travel fanned his ambition...
...tapped to buy football uniforms for the 146th Field Artillery at Fort Lewis. Teamsters recorded the farewell messages of 60,000 soldiers who passed through the Seattle Port of Embarkation and sent the records to their families. Dave Beck ran the state of Washington's third war bond drive and exceeded the quota by $30 million...
...over two eels which had stoppered Bronx water pipes and an owl which flew into the 67th floor of the RCA building. "If the whole metropolitan animal kingdom-cats, dogs, horses, pigeons, even cockroaches-has decided to gang up on us city dwellers," said the News, "they could probably drive us all nuts in no time...
...could tell them yet whether the drive was winning; the next six to eight months will give that answer. If vaccination fails to wipe out the plague, then Mexico must probably resign herself to living more or less permanently with aftosa, controlling it as best she can. And the threat of disastrous infection from across the border will hang heavy over the $11 billion U.S. livestock industry...