Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago one Joseph Hunsaker, a Green City, Mo. truck driver who likes detective fiction, saw a picture of the man accused of conducting the massacre of seven Chicago Moran gangsters on St. Valentine's day two years ago (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). The man in the picture had a scarred lip and ruffy face. So did the stranger who lately married into the nearby Porter family, thought Joseph Hunsaker. The stranger seemed to have plenty of money, always in bills of large denominations. He never did any work, took long mysterious trips. Joseph Hunsaker took his suspicions...
Flying the President's flag (U. S. eagle-&-shield with four white stars on a blue field) from her main truck, the 31,000-ton dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine...
...Chicago last week the actual and original Hilding ("Hildy") Johnson, for 20 years criminal-court reporter for the Chicago Herald & Examiner, died of injuries sustained some months ago when he was hit by a motor-truck...
...nonsense. It bears the unmistakable imprint of Mr. Baldwin's loose thought. Being used to the Grand Old Muddler, the entire British press assumed that by "in India" he meant "on India" which would make sense, and mean that the Conservative Party had resolved to have no more truck with half-naked St. Gandhi and his crew...
Recently in Chicago a truck crushed the same Peter Grimes's mended leg. The surgeon who attended him was Dr. Jerger, now practicing in Chicago. As Dr. Jerger amputated Peter Grimes's leg, he thrilled on recognizing the signature of his old handiwork. Later, when he learned that Peter Grimes had received $20,000 for his latest accident, he was piqued. Last week he sued Peter Grimes...