Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Government, decided to destroy two Havana newsorgans considered most sympathetic with Spain's Whites. A 12-year-old touring car in which were concealed 1,500 sticks of dynamite and a time-clock detonator was parked outside the editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais's two-story building, shattered the Church of Nuestra Señora de Monserrate across the street, broke glass storefronts for a distance of six blocks, killed four, hurt...
...Samples: Local real-estate tax, county real-estate tax, municipal real-estate tax, school district real-estate tax, local personal property tax, county personal property tax, municipal personal property tax, state income tax, motor license tax, auto truck state license tax, occupation tax, tax on grain storage, electricity...
...Conchartee, Okla., the arrival of new editions of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs was in the nature of both an economic and literary event. The train was late; the post office truck stalled under the load; the mail carriers were held up in their deliveries. Chosen from the comprehensive array of goods described and pictured within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail...
...Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward out of the station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome and this rain is the finest thing I've seen this summer...
...have seldom been found in the same school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes...