Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WTith its Indiana line-an "assembled" product-White is the only truck company that blankets the entire price field. Indianas are priced as low as $695. Big Whites, like the 28-ton tractor-trailer lately delivered to a coal mining company for stripping operations, are virtually custom made and priced accordingly. White's production last year was about 8,000 trucks, 1,000 buses, with a total value of some...
...truck and trailer of the Gorman Brothers circus rounded a corner in East Orange, N. J., the trailer's cargo, Jap, 50, a gentle, little, four-ton cow elephant, slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said...
...trailer were stalled on a very steep grade in the Rushmore National Park. I had been stuck there all night and early in the morning there came bounding down the mountain two nattily dressed young men whom I later found to be employed on the memorial which is being carved on one of the lofty mountain peaks. One of them was the son of the sculptor himself* and he recognized our plight on the roadside and when he found out who we were he said, "Well, well, I have just been reading about you," and he picked from the seat...
...with the driveling campus radical (Hardie Albright), is sent to Mexico to get over it by her choleric Army officer father. There she meets a roistering young soldier (Robert Young) whom she tricks into helping her get back to Washington. What at times, during the return trip in a trailer owned by an irresponsible person with a soft baritone voice (Cliff Edwards), almost becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which the radical is making a speech. Silliest...
Finding a sleek coupe-&-trailer parked on Riverside Drive late one rainy night, an indignant Manhattan policeman hammered on the trailer door, woke up North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, his campaign manager and his Negro cook & chauffeur. Ordered the policeman: "Move on." Sleepy Senator Reynolds, who is trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent...