Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were strikes all over the country. Fifteen were shot, one killed when picketers and steelworkers clashed at Ambridge, Pa. Silk mill strikers marched 10,000 strong in Paterson. N.. J. Corset-makers and truck drivers struck in Manhattan. Grape pickers struck in Lodi. Calif. A strike of 10,000 machine tool and diemakers was on in Detroit. In Pennsylvania, 55,000 coal miners were still out (see p. 12). Philadelphia bakers left their ovens. Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board barely averted a strike by 650 commercial air pilots. A dozen striking window washers pulled...
...undertaker's assistant about to be married, was offered by his employer as long a honeymoon as he wished with all expenses paid, if he would deliver a corpse to Stillwater, Minn, in the course of it. Charles J. King & bride set off in an undertaker's truck with the corpse, delivered it, continued their honeymoon...
...early in September that Kelly made his mistake. He separated from his wife and set out for Texas, presumably to collect some of the Urschel ransom money. Mrs. Kelly continued to drive through Oklahoma, using the light delivery truck in which she and her husband had posed as vegetable dealers. She was by this time thoroughly frightened, was thinking of betraying her husband. Driving into Texas she picked up three hitchhikers, Luther Arnold, his wife, and their 12-year-old daughter, Geraldine. She induced Arnold to let her keep the girl, thinking that her presence would detract suspicion. Then...
...driving a truckload of piglets to the Chicago stockyards, had to stop when the road was blanketed by a cloud of smoke from peat fires. Behind him came another truckload of pigs driven by Ellis Johnson, who drove into the smoke, smashed into the rear of Talbot's truck. Behind Johnson came a string of five automobiles. One by one they disappeared in the smoke cloud, each ramming the car ahead. Eighth in line was Elmer Reiser who, suspecting a holdup, swung into the left lane and sped ahead. He smashed into a truck coming the other...
...fire of 1764) we thought of bringing our French 2 and German A books up in a wheelbarrow and dumping them on the Widener steps some dark night. But last year we watched Mr. Walton and his men load eight tons of duplicate books, a record shipment, in a truck for a New York dealer. So we are skeptical, having never thought of John Harvard as needful of our books, either as a collector or as a broker...