Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected the carriers would ask, besides rate upping for long hauls, for sharp cuts on short hauls where they compete directly with motor trucks. So desperate is the railroads' fight against bus & truck competition that fortnight ago before the I. C. C., Reading Co. made a horrid example of its own motorbus subsidiary as a beneficiary of undertaxation...
...laundering and cooking. Many a small city helps dispose of its garbage by feeding it either to hogs of its own or by turning it over to private piggeries. Among hog-feeding towns Alhambra, Calif., Portland, Me., Lynn, Mass., Albany, N. Y. Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Mich, truck their refuse to piggeries. The cost of incineration runs from 26? per ton at Florence, S. C. to $5 per ton at Providence, R. I., where the plant is a quarter-mile from City Hall...
...quizzical fashion. His eyes have the kind of crinkle that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where he had learned to play good golf and tennis, took to driving a fertilizer truck. William Faversham let him play five small parts in The Mask and the Face. He lives in a bungalow called "Chez Montgomery," claims that he has worked every day except eleven in the past two years. He has succumbed to a few typical Hollywood eccentricities, such as ordering a steak for dessert...
...their well-known rapidity (six litters per year, of four to eight offspring per litter). But suddenly the booming U. S. rabbit industry became overproduced everywhere. And last week bankrupt Mrs. Brown explained: "About a year ago rabbits began coming in from everywhere, thousands of them, by parcel post, truck and express. I couldn't tell if they were the offspring of my rabbits or not, but the people had my contracts, and I had to take them. They ate me out of house & home, and wouldn't go when I turned them loose. I hauled them...
...managed to get him into the University of Indiana. But Dreiser's year there was a failure, left him with little respect for formal education, which he regards as "a serviceable means of passing the time." Back in Chicago he worked in a hardware store, drove a laundry truck, changed jobs usually for the worse. But then he entered the lists of love, acquitted himself not so badly. That perked him up. The book (and his youth, says Dreiser) ends with his discharge for "borrowing" money from his boss's funds. There is still a long...