Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is told that President Lowell, once, greatly to the risk of his own life, dashed into the street to rescue Phantom from an on-rushing commercial truck...
...York City, a 56-mi. gale sang around the skyscrapers; knocked off the cover of a roof water tank showering a dozen women in the building's elevator; puffed out a truck's tarpaulin, overturning the truck; whisked a woman's hoarded wealth out of her petticoat pocket; blew a painter out of his saddle high up in the cables of Brooklyn Bridge; blew the S. S. Deutschland broadside against the head of a Hudson River pier; blew homebound Warren S. Coyle's automobile off the road into a stone wall in New Jersey, killing Coyle...
With sirens shrieking, a swarm of motorcycles shot down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and turned west on 57th Street. After them sped a black limousine with secret service men standing like supernumerary footmen on its running boards. A truck full of trunks followed. It was Thursday, March 2, and Citizen Franklin Delano Roosevelt was moving to the White House...
...sports for the Xth Olympiad included bob-sled racing, hitherto practiced only in the Alps. The run cost $250,000, most of which was supplied by New York State. Last week most of the ablest licensed* bob-sled drivers in the U. S. climbed into a steam-heated tractor-truck at the bottom of the slide, had themselves carried up to the top for the start of the North American Championships...
...shaded prices slightly one day fortnight ago. Another dealer learned about it, shaded his prices a trifle more. The movement spread quickly throughout the city. By evening tire prices had been slashed as much as 56%. All dealers did a roaring but highly unprofitable business as private owners and truck fleet operators jammed in to buy tires for the next two or three years. Next day the big Akron rubber companies wired stern orders for the skirmish to cease. Back up went Cleveland's tire prices even faster than they had come down...