Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biplane named American Boy. Previous "record" of 48 hr., set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time. Young Goldsborough's flight was punctuated by forced landings. Overtaken by darkness near El Paso, he settled down on the desert beside a truck. "Two prospectors were in it. They treated me royally, shared their food and water with me. . . . In taking off next morning along a narrow road lined by telegraph poles, I had a cross wind and just clipped the lower left wing tip, but I got into the air safely...
Just then a truck loaded with bricks blows its horn imperiously for him to get out of the way. He stops his inspection and hurries as fast as his sixty odd years will permit to crank his ancient Ford. More rivets are driven home, the truck starts back for another load of bricks and the famous professor scurries back to his class to lecture on the Platonic theory of education...
...Kansas City a crowd collected. An ambulance rolled up. A chemical fire truck got ready for action. Then the plane appeared. Although the officials waved a red flag, Mr. Hammill paid no heed to ground demonstrations. He brought his plane down for a three point landing. The useless right wheel dug into the ground, and the ship's tail flew up. She ground-looped around to the right, on her wing and her nose, then burst into flames. The chemical truck swung into action, extinguished the fire. The couple was helped out unhurt, shaken up, and grateful...
Summoned by their lustily bawling village crier, the peasants have gathered, suspiciously at first, then with growing excited interest at their schoolroom, outside which halted a truck sent by the Ministry of Education, equipped with an electric generator from which cables led to a whirring machine inside the schoolroom that flashed pictures which actually moved...
Mike and his gang played in vacant lots when they could, but mostly in the street. Once one of them was attacked by a pervert. Mike's little sister was killed by a truck...