Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yesterday the mail runner came up with a copy of TIME for me among other things. It came to Bel-Abbes, then to Fez and on to Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken...
Chicago, heedless to Col. Ruppert's national plea, got its beer cold and at the zero hour. While sirens, pistols and cowbells sounded, State Street establishments dispensed to rows four deep. Louis Schneider, winner of the Indianapolis Memorial Day auto race in 1931, piloted a beer truck bound out of town. The Illinois Legislature having failed to agree on a beer dispensary bill, Acting Mayor Frank Corr announced that no city licenses would be levied, that Chicago would be on "beer probation...
...pants-presser. While working for Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production, is a combination ashtray & pipe-bowl cleaner which operates like the orange-juice extractors used by soda fountains. Mr. Gross's father was an inventor. His son. 6, and daughter...
...circus buffs the Flying Codonas really, artistically wind up the show, though Human Projectile Hugo Zacchini still hurtles clear across the Garden from the mouth of an inclined cannon to make the official finale. Zacchini is good, and this year his cannon is mounted on a silver truck. But he is a find, not an artist, not a circus tradition. His trajectories will not be charted after he is gone...
...Elkhart, Ind., Morris Shock appeared in court for operating an oversized truck (72 ft. long), was asked bv Judge Conley what he was hauling. Replied Shock, "A whale." Released, Shock & whale proceeded to Chicago's World's Fair...