Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivals, Alma College (Alma, Mich.). After the game some 250 Albions tried to crash into a local cinema. Police arrested 150, but could find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed the rebels...
...businessmen, lawyers, smart sporting people, animal fanciers. Its president is Frank K. Sturgis. Onetime president of the National Horse Show, onetime president of the Turf and Field Club, he succeeded August Belmont as Chairman of the U. S. Jockey Club. Unlike those old ladies who feed truck horses lump sugar from paper bags in their purses, he is no sentimentalist; unlike Henry Bergh, he is a cosmopolite without being a freak. Now 83, he still summers at Newport. His stern, mustachioed countenance has changed little since the days when, a member of Strong. Sturgis & Co., he was president...
...clerk picked out Casks No. 4, 30 and 53 for sample inspection. They were opened and, sure enough, they did contain flower pots. A crockery duty of $107.70 was assessed and paid on the whole consignment and away went the other 51 casks, first to a warehouse, then by truck out over Long Island roads to "The Braes," where they were properly received...
Servel, Inc. ("Electrolux" and "Servel" refrigerators, also gas engines and truck bodies): $835,000 (estimated) as against...
Editor Richard H. Edmonds of the Manufacturers' Record: "I anticipate a gradual but marked improvement throughout the country." Directing Editor Norman G. Shidle of Chilton Class Journal Co.: "Passenger car production will probably be about 17% less than it was in 1929. Motor truck production, we expect, will be slightly higher than...