Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second part of the summer will be spent in a rapid reconnaissance, covering 1,500 miles in New Mexico, Colorado, and the north of Texas. The traveling will be done by truck, and the party will usually camp out. The first place that will be visited is the northern basin of the Rio Grande, where ancient lakes will be studied. From there the party will go to the salt lakes in the enclosed basin of the Estancia, and across the plains of Eastern New Mexico, ending at the Carlsbad Caverns...
High ran the hopes of the Wets last December when U. S. District Court Judge William Clark, at Newark, N. J., handed down a decision that the 18th Amendment was invalid. Judge Clark, in quashing an indictment brought against one William Sprague for transporting a truck load of beer, had contended that the 18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate...
...eccentric old gentleman who infests a most attractive old country house invites a casual stranger to spend the night. It turns out the old gentleman is a student of the occult; the stranger takes no stock in such truck, but before the night is over he changes his mind...
...ought to begin now," he shouted, "by making it perfectly clear that we intend to remain effective rulers in every essential for a very long, indefinite period. . . . We will have no truck with lawlessness or treason, and will if necessary, suspend even the most moderate constitutional changes while there is bad spirit abroad...
Farmer William Sprague, 42, town clerk of Wantage, N. J., under indictment for transporting a truck load of beer, was out hunting one afternoon last week when U. S. District Judge William Clark at Newark delivered a long and startling decision in his commonplace case. Concluded Judge Clark's opinion...