Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people in West Palm Beach, Fla., thought George W. Moore was a bootlegger. They had seen a truck backing up to his home, unloading bottles. Four U. S. Prohibition agents, with a search warrant from a U. S. commissioner, went to Moore's house one evening last week. Two approached the front door, two the rear. The search warrant was exhibited. From behind closed doors buckshot poured into the warm darkness...
...summer, swift motorboats cleave both Manhattan's broad grey Hudson River and narrow, oily East River. But unusual is the sight that Manhattanites had last week-a tarpaulin-covered motorboat left all night on a truck at a Park Avenue corner. Many another night and all day many another glistening, rivet-new motorboat was being carted through the streets. Gapers who followed these land-hauled boats found they were bound for Grand Central Palace, there to bask in blue and silver brilliance for the 25th (Silver Anniversary) New York Motorboat Show...
...indicate the architectural trend of a new age, little do the duties of Albert Kahn, Inc., resemble those of Pierre L'Enfant and the Augustan Greeks. Under Architect Kahn's supervision, plans will be prepared by some 1,500 Soviet architects and engineers for four motor car, truck and cycle factories; nine plants for tractors and farm implements; then for six asbestos, corundum, and graphite factories; two locomotive works; 15 machine tool, cash register, and typewriter factories; 24 cement factories; 126 sawmills; 106 woodworking plants; 27 glass factories; 35 spinning mills; 15 woolen mills; 13 clothing factories...
Giant. Also said Standard Statistics: "At the wheel of the automobile rides America's industrial destiny." In the U. S. are 320,000 filling stations, 51,200 public garages, 56,300 car and truck dealers. The industry uses 85% of the rubber, 80% of the gasoline, 75% of the plate glass, 18% of the steel, 25% of the lead produced in the land. In the U. S. are registered 26 million motor vehicles with a wholesale value of $3,500,000,000. Obvious are the reasons why U. S. businessmen, after examining the first show reports and reading...
...slain man must have been standing when shot, suggesting that the speedboat was stopped when fired upon. He said that Downey had bled to death because the guardsmen had not called for help or administered first aid. While they loitered, city police summoned an ambulance and a fire truck, hoisted the inert 200-lb. Downey out of the launch...