Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff as a buffoon. Last week Sheriff C. Wesley Collins was ready for strong measures...
...Commander Wahib Pasha. Long exiled by Turkey's Dictator Kemal, "Old Eagle Beak," as he is known? to U. S. correspondents, still clings to his Ottoman fez and grey-green World War uniform. In his charge was one of Ethiopia's prides, a fleet of 20 U. S. motor trucks used to transport black troopers across the desert to rivers and water holes that they must soon de fend. Neither mud nor water could stop them. At a river bank 100 blacks lifted each truck to their sturdy shoulders and waded across...
...more loquacious member of the janitorial staff, queried about the situation, came out with starting facts. "You say Mr. Apted says 30, 60 tons. Well, he's about right. Enough tutoring school notes to fill a truck came out of this building every year, I should say. Two years ago, I got two good suits fellers had left. One time some boy left a snake in a cage in his room; we didn't find it for three or four days I guess, because it was pretty near dead. We didn't know what to do with...
...upstairs room is occupied by four "parties." These parties, Mike reports, have firearms in their laps and poker cards in their hands, but their sport has been spoiled by someone's having shot them all dead. It subsequently develops that the parties had just knocked off an armored truck full of bookmakers' money and were waiting to see Marco about an old matter involving a hijacked brewery. It occurs to Marco at once that it would be a funny prank to distribute the cadavers over the lawns of various visitors at the resort who have in times past...
...Live Stock building fiddlers squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels, tossed Owner Martin, bolted into the crowd. The next time they struck the earth with their hoofs until it trembled, tugged the truck down the course in short order to win the event...