Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While these operators were conferring two truck loads of shabby National Miners' Union (Communist) strikers, their gaunt wives and skinny-children, arrived in Washington to protest. They parked behind the White House. Police were ready for them, confiscated tin cans for collecting money, banners emblazoned "Down With Hoover's Strike-Breaking Conference...
...Hutchinson, Kans. the country was dotted with great mounds of wheat-10,000 bu. to the pile-which had been dumped out of doors for lack of elevator space. At Bucklin, one Forrest Kennett got his name in the papers by scorning a 27? per bu. offer, decorating his truck with jackasses labelled "Farm Board" and "Wheat Farmer," and driving away with the tail board down so his load dribbled out through the town's streets. Here & there growers plowed their crop under rather than take the loss of harvesting it. In Pratt County one Marvin Shetterly, unable...
Three steers, unhappily penned in a truck bound for the slaughter house, one day last week broke loose in a residential district of Pittsburgh, ran crazily about the street. Arthur Hay, 32, an ice-dealer, father of six. shooed a crowd of children to safety, herded one of the steers into a yard. When Iceman Hay seized one of its horns the steer tossed him over the fence, leaped after him, trampled him. Then it turned on one William Busch who tried to rescue Hay. Finally it was roped. A second steer charged Policeman Arthur Jennings, pinned him against...
...France Chamber debate trifles tell. When a venomous attack on the Government for consenting to have truck with Mr. Hoover was launched by Conservative Deputy Louis Marin, it was parried, and deflated in a twinkling by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, "Master Parliamentarian of Europe," as follows...
Books cheap and dear, in leather, in paper, in boards, beautiful books and ugly ones, books to keep or to throw away are loaded daily in increasing lots upon a great U. S. public. Guardians of these truck- loads of print are the nation's librarians. Some think their duty is to furnish useful knowledge to all. But is it? Have they not already ruined the high aristocracy of thought in vulgarizing education? Should not a large part of the people-the simple, kindly folk-be left in ignorance so that they may carry on the world...