Word: truck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute started about some cabbages in 1917 reached its climax last night in Charles' Lunch when Herr Alexander Engel was attacked by a truck-driver who wished to get his revenge before the "Professor" should leave for Europe...
...land, stories began to trickle into the newspapers telling of the havoc wrought by the cyclone. At Folkestone, a motor truck was blown into the sea and the driver killed. At Portsmouth, a tramcar was blown into a house. In Wales, the coal mines were flooded. Along the Thames, people were "drowned out of their houses." From every coastal point, news came to London telling of angry waves battering the piers and swamping the promenades. Damage to telegraph and telephone wires greatly interfered with communication, while Channel boats suspended service between England and France...
...shoe laces, but I don't mind that. I don't mind anything in a spirit of fun. I never sold a shoe lace, but I wouldn't be ashamed of it if I had. I woundn't care if you said I got my start driving a garbage truck. That's just as honest a way to earn money as selling bonds...
...have been asked to assist in this collecting will receive postal cards requesting their assistance before the drive begins. An attempt will be made to complete the collection by Thursday. A motor truck will call at each collector's headquarters as frequently as is deemed necessary...
...Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was being driven to his home at Charny, near Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed...