Word: truck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they moved to Sharpsburg, Pa., where the young father established a brick yard. Frugal Anna wanted her own kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling and canning. The grating of horseradish was an eye-smarting task. But Mrs. Heinz' preparation of this root was so appetizing that it found a ready sale. Henry John was its eager boy salesman...
...Taking a walk one afternoon at 5:00, the President was nearly run down by a Ford delivery truck driven by a Negro. Just as the President was crossing the street between the White House and the Treasury Building, the car swung into the street from Pennsylvania Ave. Two secret service men seized the President by the arms and drew him back. He said nothing...
...street leading into Pittsburgh, a bus carrying a troupe of strolling players who present Uncle Tom's Cabin was hurrying. Other cars were hurrying likewise. One was a handsome limousine, with a banker reclining within; one was a scrap-iron truck, driven by a Negro. It was this truck, passing three automobiles coming toward it, that accidentally rammed one of them. There was a tremendous crash. Five other cars piled into the wreckage before they could stop. Among them were the strolling players, the handsome limousine. Little Eva was badly shaken. The two bloodhounds yelped with pain and rage...
From this start, improvements, expansion and new railway companies emerged rapidly. In 1831 the eight-wheeled truck was introduced. In 1836 the first sleeping car was developed. By 1838 Congress authorized the use of railways to carry mail. In 1851 the Hoosac Tunnel-the first of its kind -was commenced. By 1852 the Pennsylvania Railroad opened a through route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and by 1853 all rail connection between Chicago and eastern states was established. In 1857 the first refrigerator car was attempted and in 1859 the first Pullman sleeping car introduced...
...unique in the Cambridge Boston traffic tangled. Time and again the tailor across from the Lampoon has been obliged to remove pieces of automobile from his window and shop. Indeed he is now building new steps to withstand the assaults of duelling autoists. The old ones supported many a truck in its expiring moments. No Sunday passes without leaving its tell of broken glass and bits of nuts and bolts strewn all the way from Arthur's door to Russell Hall...