Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the sole exception that they cannot hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They can hold their own in any activity where hearing is not absolutely essential-such as in radio communication. Among them are bakers and barbers, painters and carpenters, shoemakers, machinists, truck drivers, draftsmen, chemists, and even radio repairmen. Many of them are college educated. All they ask for is a chance...
...Longa. Near Victorville, Calif., a cement truck demolished a sedan, left intact in the wreckage a pamphlet: Accidents Don't Happen...
Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee...
Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...Monsanto companies, and gives an excellent crystal-clear plastic when polymerized by itself. Combined with butadiene in Buna-S, the product is high in tensile strength and resistant to abrasion. In some tests it has proved distinctly superior to natural rubber in wearing qualities. (Some Buna-S truck tires have lasted over 50,000 miles.) The Baruch plan calls for an annual production of 845,000 tons, primarily for tires...