Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rushing at 60 m.p.h. through the westbound tube of Holland Vehicular Tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey one evening last week, a light coupé veered out of the speed lane into the slow lane and crashed squarely into the rear of a lumbering biscuit truck. The car's driver and a passenger were killed. It was the Holland Tunnel's first fatal accident among 43 million cars which have passed through since its opening...
...instalment plan. China was remiss in her instalments therefore Japan, like any piano company, was repossessing her goods. Japanese authorities last week made amends for assaults on two U. S. citizens. The car of U. S. Trade Commissioner H. D. Robison was smashed by an army truck (TIME, March 14). Commissioner Robison was punched in the face. Japan paid the garage bill and cut the truck driver's salary. Miss Rose Marlowe was severely beaten by a civilian reservist when she attempted to enter the ruins of Chapei. The reservist was sentence to 15 days in jail. China...
Last night's performance, under the management of N. P. Farquhar '32, was played by the following cast: Mrs. Persimmons, W. O. Faxon '32; Mrs. Hawkins, Sturtevant Burr '31; Mrs. Migrain, Francis Hoague '31; Mac Truck, N. P. Farquhar '32; Tommy Hawthorn, S. C. Dorman '33; Brock Kerreth, P. S. Carter '34; "Hermes" Austin, R. B. Harrison '32; Betty Landingstone, R. W. Kuhl '32; Anita Gale, J. H. Pearson '32; radio announcer, W. M. Marvel '30; reporter, Arthur Barrett...
Glasses perch on the nose of U. S. Trade Commissioner Harold D. Robison at Shanghai. As he sat in his parked car last week at No. 812 North Szechwan Rd., Mr. Robison saw clearly that the Japanese Naval truck which suddenly sideswiped and dented his car was No. 16460. Vexed, Mr. Robison stepped on his starter, chased the truck to Japanese Naval Headquarters at Hongkew. Japanese in the truck jeered Mr. Robison...
Henry Ford made the first automobile which could go a mile-a-minute. Its name was 999. It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck. To get it started, the manifold had to be warmed with a blow torch. The November day in 1902 when 999 made its stupendous record at Grosse Pointe, Mich., the young man who drove it sat on a high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask...