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Word: milkwagon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...When milkwagon drivers refused to cross their fellow workers' picket line at a Detroit dairy, one sorrel horse grew tired of waiting and set off alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Charlie's Sin | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Revolt of the Nags. In The Bronx, a junk-wagon horse named Brownie ran away on a hot day, clattered down a flight of steps to a cellar door, broke in, relaxed in comfort. In Brooklyn, a milkwagon horse named Jerry deserted the beat he had been traveling for 13 years, clumped 17 miles off his course, stopped in front of a house, went to the front door and knocked. He got a two-day vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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