Word: eight-mile-long
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...When the eight-mile-long parade started over the mountains to Harrisburg next morning it was accompanied by a car full of medical supplies donated by the people of Huntingdon. Nobody paid and nobody tried to collect the 10¢ toll at the Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed...
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