Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cared to come. Then he would travel with his Pullman chapel through New England. All this was to publicize, and raise money for, his missionary work in North Carolina. Many a Protestant minister travels about the land carrying the Gospel to rural districts by car and truck. But ST. PETER, and its mate ST. PAUL which is currently on show at the World's Fair in Chicago, are the only two chapel cars in all U. S. railroading. Descendant of ST. ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER was converted from an ordinary sleeper...
...candies, selling for 2? apiece, held benedictine. cherry brandy, rum or cognac. Six of them, the equivalent of a short, stiff cocktail, were enough to make a child drunk. Several shopkeepers were arrested, claimed that they had bought the liquor candies for cash from a mysterious man in a truck who left no name or address...
...sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after it hopped one Stanley Stenson, 25, a zoo truck driver. His ami was stretched through the second fence when, like a cat after a bird, a lion leaped, sank its great fangs, pulled him down into the pit. Three other lions pounced. While onlookers screamed helplessly, the lions dragged Stanley Stenson off into a clump of English hawthorn, crunched...
...Dionne quintuplets are not going to the Century of Progress Exposition. But last week Fair visitors in Chicago were able to gaze upon "the largest Italian family in the whole U. S."-21 strong. There was Mike Latorra, 49, Chicago truck gardener, and his wife Rosa. 44, and their children: 1) Mrs. Lawrence Damore, 26, mother of five; 2) Mrs. Lucille Quarante, 25, mother of three; 3) Mrs. Margaret Palella, 24, mother of three; 4) Mrs. Angeline Dell, 22; 5) Mrs. Dominic Damore, 21; 6) Sarah, 21, twin of No. 5; 7) Isabel, 19; 8) Vito, 17; 9) Michael...
...entomologist, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens means so many ladybird beetles-small, black-stippled yellow inhabitants of California's high Sierras, fond of eating the eggs of the vegetable aphis (louse) which is a scourge of most truck farmers. To Robert Bogue, who is both an entomologist and a businessman, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens last week meant the biggest order yet received for his chief stock-in-trade...