Word: truck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor polisher in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. She gets home from work in the morning in time to send the eldest of her nine children off to school, and to greet husband James as he leaves their tenement flat for his job on a city garbage truck...
...mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
Race to Safety. As the flaming truck rolled, driverless, to a stop, scores of trucks and cars jammed up behind it. Coughing, half-blinded, their drivers and passengers got out and began running for safety; somehow, all got out alive. Within minutes the blocked section of tunnel, 18 ft. below the Hudson River's bed, was a roaring furnace...
...last week, a Tory Party worker drove his sound truck through the sleepy streets of London's suburban Thornton Heath, roused the neighborhood by trumpeting through his loudspeaker: "Wakie, Wakie-up you get -and up the Tories...
...days the Nationalist line blocking the Reds from Woosung still held firm. Said a Chinese Central News Agency dispatch: ". . . in a sea of blood and death the troops are fighting on & on." To bolster morale, Shanghai's new mayor, Chen Liang, rode out to the front in a truck loaded with gifts for the troops-20 live pigs, 20 cases of cigarettes, 3,000 sandwiches and 600 towels. At Lunghua airport, U.S. airlines announced the departure of their last planes from Shanghai. The planes took off with passengers jammed three to a seat...