Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four crooks drove up to the Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most...
Seatrain's counterpart by land appeared last week when the Alton, now a unit of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was permitted to carry loaded trucks on flat cars between Chicago and East St. Louis. Trucks up to 20 tons are accepted, loaded and unloaded at the truck firm's expense. The transportation costs between $30 and $60 depending on weight, is slightly cheaper than the cost of driving the truck over highways. This service was hailed as "the first move of the western steam railroads to cooperate with trucking companies." Several months ago Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (electric) offered...
Into the Ozark foothills in a truck went Denver M. Wright one day last week. With him. beside the two young lions he had bought from a circus for $75, were two friends, a barber and a plumber. Somewhere in the hills were his two sons, lost. Behind him, horrified, was the St. Louis suburb of Brentwood, where he had long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt...
...William IV, Victoria and Edward VII. remembered Palmerston. Disraeli, Gladstone, and as a child sat on the knee of Sir Walter Scott); peacefully, of old age; in Ballymascanlon, County Louth, Ireland. Granddaughter of John W. Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, she would have no truck with automobiles, radios, phonographs, modern women, had "never heard of" George Bernard Shaw, eschewed "noise & vulgarity." She had been a pioneer Alpine climber, raised roses...
Until last week Fred and Hector Redshaw of Industry, N.Y. owned two black bears: Andy and his mate named, despite her sex, Amos. Last week the Redshaws were driving their pets home from advertising a cinema in Lockport. Near Albion their truck broke down. They tied the bears to a fence, started making repairs. A curious jabbering crowd gathered around the nervous animals. Small Peter Mathew Ryan, 5, wanted to pet Andy. . . . His father tore the clawed and bitten boy away, rushed him to a hospital where he soon died, a doctor said mostly of fright...