Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aberdeen, N. C., M. S. Hawkins, tobacco "farmer," was sleeping in the cab of a truck which he had driven into a tobacco warehouse the night before, intending to unload and sell his tobacco the next day. Mr. Hawkins dreamed that he was crossing a railroad track, that his vehicle was about to be struck by an oncoming train. At that critical juncture in his dream a fast freight actually roared by along a track near the warehouse, with a jangle of bell and blast of whistle. Not waiting to open the door, Tobacco Grower Hawkins hastily dived through...
...correct but the circumstantial evidence was against him. The I. C. C. had the word of a Baltimore & Ohio man that a New York Central vice president had telephoned him to threaten that Universal would surely shift its patronage if B. & O. made an alliance with the Keeshin truck lines. The B. & O. continued to discuss that alliance, whereupon Universal started to route over Pennsylvania...
...Central has a heavy stake in a service which provides shippers with big steel boxes that can be loaded on flat cars. B. & O. could go that one better by running a Keeshin trailer on flat cars, running it off at its destination to be attached to a Keeshin truck tractor...
James M. Keller 3L, is in charge of the sound truck in which the trips are made. The whole program is under the direction of Raymond Dennett...
...enough men can be collected, the plan is to have the sound truck go to one spot, collect a crowd by playing records, and then leave a man to address the assembly. The sound truck will then go to another square where the speeches will be made from the truck. Impromptu talks are usually given...