Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because their escape obviously was well worked out in advance, they made it look easy. Using scissors on the convict driver, Touhy commandeered a garbage truck inside the prison yard. Loading some ladders and his colleagues-in-flight on to it (and taking along two guards, one of whom was mauled, as hostages), Touhy drove the truck to silo-shaped guard tower No. 3. There the criminals shot and slightly wounded Guard Herman Kross, scaled the 35-ft. wall, walked down the tower's outside steps, hopped into Guard Kross's car (parked near by) and drove away...
Sleeveless Errand. Near Chadron, Neb., a truck sideswiped another truck, sheared an arm off Truckman Ross Thompson, who searched for it along the road awhile, finally drove into town, stopped, fainted...
...openings than ever before. Others-stenographers, schoolteachers, movie starlets-are hard put to compete with the high pay and patriotic glamor of war jobs. The first conductorettes on Los Angeles streetcars looked as though they had come right out of a nightclub chorus line. There is hardly any job-truck driver, mechanic, cobbler, oyster shucker, engineer, bartender, butcher, baker or candlestick maker-that women cannot get if they want them and more & more women are getting them...
...County has sent 750 boys to the armed forces and scores of men to war jobs in Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge. But the farmers who stayed behind pitched in and got barn-bursting harvests: 23% more cotton than last year, 146% more hay, 110% more eggs, 619% more truck crops...
...very easy to get into films, and very slow going, after he got there. Wayne, born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, was raised on a California ranch. At the University of Southern California he picked up the nickname "Duke," was an honor student. Vacations, he worked as a truck driver, an iceman, a prop...