Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheaf of pink & red roses last week to be laid with other sheaves around an apple tree in the "Garden of Memory" at Himley Hall, Worcestershire. Just eight months ago a seven-year-old boy was buried in this garden. Cycling, he had been run over by a truck. Last week his mother was laid beside him. She, young and lovely Rosemary Millicent Viscountess Ednam, perished in the mysterious airplane crash in Kent fortnight ago when six Britons were killed. The card which H. R. H. sent with his pink & red mourning roses last week read: "With love from...
President Hoover is one of several stockholders in Poso Land & Development Co., which operates a truck ranch-cotton, grapes, alfalfa, melons-at Wasco, in the San Joaquin Valley south of Stockton. There are no labor signs of any kind on or near this ranch...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...
...Mack Truck...
...salary. His first big responsibility came in 1923 when he took over the direction of Oakland Motor Car Co., General Motors' "sick" unit. He made it so healthy that Pontiac was later brought out under Oakland auspices. Later he was called to Russia by the Soviets, constructed Russian truck plants in the U. S. manner. Last year Sir Herbert Austin visited the U. S. seeking to interest U. S. capital in an American Austin. General Motors was among those not interested, although General Motors today is closely watching the success of a small Austin-like Opel car and may introduce...