Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special arrived at Fort Knox about dawn. It was met by Brigadier General Daniel Van Voorhis, Fort Knox commandant, and a motorized unit of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry brigade. After concealing canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated...
...festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them to leave by motor truck through Banditland or perhaps by airplane. Meanwhile huge U. S.-built Nanking Government planes, each capable of taking out a score of persons, flew back & forth between Nanking and Sian, each carrying one or two Chinese officers of low rank supposedly entrusted with the usual bribe money indispensable to settling...
After a cautious approach the hotfoot huskies of the Yard Police were relieved to find it was only a real body, and tossed it into a passing laundry truck. Having assured themselves that there was no more beer in the pump, they left...
First thing Worker Martin learned about was the "speed-up." Put to work with four others on a truck assembly line, within a week he found himself and one other doing the work of the original five. "Working conditions" became a reality one day when several completed trucks slipped off their runway, crashed down on the spot where he would have been standing if he had not been at lunch. He went to the foreman, got steel posts put up which saved his life next time some trucks crashed down. Meantime he had become vice president of the local automobile...
Numerous textile concerns have dodged the law by splitting bids into lots of less than $10,000, a method suggested for motor makers. Last week, however, International Harvester and Reo Motor were awarded truck contracts after the Labor Department clarified some knotty legal points. One question raised by Harvester was whether the hours provisions applied to its other operations such as farm machinery or only to its truck plants. The Labor Department held that only the particular plant making Government goods was affected. In the case of the copper companies all mine operations might be included, which was presumably...