Word: truck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulged up from 1,240 millions to 1,349 millions; potatoes from 251 millions to 470 millions; garden truck from 300 millions to 322 millions; fruit from 480 millions to 506 millions. Most valuable truck: tomatoes, $50,777,000. Most valuable fruit: apples, $184,107,000. Tobacco crop...
...Montreal, one Billy Hights bumped his auto into a truck. His wooden leg caught fire. Unable to jump, he was badly burned...
...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
...carried countrywide news of his death (TIME, Oct. 7). There was one sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking ponderously on his specially constructed truck in Waycross, Ga.; engulfing his daily 1,200 lb. of fish; thunderously snorting at his keeper. The unfortunate who really had died was not a circus aristocrat but a mere elephant-seal of the Hagenbeck-Wallace (Ringling-owned) Circus...
...Truck" Miller, "Honeyboy" Finnegan, "Newsboy" Brown, "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, Fielding "Hurry-Up Yost, "Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...