Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to recognition the Union sought "other benefits" for the maids, janitors, kitchen help, bakers, laundrymen, and truck drivers it represents. Cornelius W. De Kiewiet, acting president of the University, said that Cornell's policy toward its employees had always been "flexible and liberal...
...such glamorous old hangouts as the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza, was in the midst of a barnstorming tour of 65 one-night stands. Her caravan included her own chauffeur-driven Cadillac, five other sedans for her staff and ten-piece orchestra, and a pastel-yellow Mack truck for the musical instruments and her four trunks of gowns...
...fireman, Herbert F. Shea, was cut in the eye by pieces of a light bulb thrown at the windshield of his fire truck. He was taken to Cambridge City Hospital Sunday night, treated, and sent home. The Fire Department reported yesteday that Shea was back on the job with his eye bandaged, and that he was in no danger of losing his sight...
Well, one day there they all are--Ty and Micheline and all the guerillas--when a truck full of Jap soldiers pulls into town. The village church gets shot up something awful and most of the Japs get what's coming to them and those Ty hasn't had a chance to kill yet get in their truck and go away just as the sky begins to buzz with hundreds and hundreds of American planes and it looks like MacArthur was right when he said "I shall return" and sure enough he does return or anyhow somebody wearing stars...
Knives & Limburger. Nothing that passes through A & P's headquarters is too small for John Hartford's eye. One morning his secretary found him throwing knives at a target in his office. A truck driver had sued A & P, charging he had been injured by a knife thrown by an A & P clerk. John made his tests to see if it was possible to hit a man at the distance claimed, proved it unlikely, won his case...