Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caricaturist-of-the-hour; his unique but not inimitable style is beginning to be copied. Benchley, a serious fellow-humorist, points out that Arno and the New Yorker between them have popularized the one-line joke (e. g.-a man driving a car pulls up beside a huge truck half on its side in a ditch, inquires politely: ''Tip over?"). ''Peter Arno may not have been the first to make use of the overheard remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school...
Married. Harriet Green Huntington, $10,000,000 heiress, granddaughter of the late Henry Edwards Huntington, California tycoon & book-collector; and one Albert Doerr Jr., onetime (while at Stanford University) ice-truck-driver, mining engineer; in Pasadena, Calif...
Reporter Powell reported that the mob of hundreds, wearing red hatbands and armed with table-legs and other handy cudgels, "gained admittance when a two-ton truck backed up ... and forced the doors. Everything was seized and destroyed, from lead pencils to printing presses. . . . The mob stormed the building and threw furnishings into the street [and burned them], smashed machinery and turned on water taps on several floors. The offices of Geraldo Rocha, proprietor of A Noite and one of the richest industrialists of Brazil, were entered and the furnishings wrecked. Rocha was not there at the time. Ismael Maia...
Martin A. O'Mara resigned as president and director of Brockway Motor Truck Corp. At the same time it was announced that the Bureau of Securities, New York State Attorney General's office, was investigating recent attempts to boost the stock's price, sought action against Mr. O'Mara, George C. Van Tuyl Jr., onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks, now a director of The Bank of United States, and David Lamar, so-called "Wolf of Wall Street" (TIME, Aug. 18). Brockway Motor Truck Corp. was one of the stocks identified with insolvent Prince & Whitely (TIME...
Near Atlantic City, N. J., a Pennsylvania R. R. train was nearly wrecked because a farmer had crashed his truck into a railroad trestle, bent the tracks out of line and hurried away too perturbed over the loss of most of his teeth to report the accident...