Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking men who couldn't tell friend from foe without glasses, it had to do some quick figuring on what to do when the glasses got broken. (About 15% of the men in the armed forces wear glasses.) Last week the Army trotted out the mechanized answer-a truck-borne optical shop, designed by A. Turner Wells of American Optical Co. The oversize gadget packs $20,000 worth of lenses, frames, grinders, etc., can repair the spectacles of an army of 300,000 within rifle shot of the front. Military myopics of World War I had to grope their...
Crimson Network Members--Picnic truck leaves from Bow and Plympton (Adams House) at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning. Have dates and other sports equipment assembled. --Crimson Notice Column...
...March 31 nearly 300 workers in one of the workers in one of the world's largest department stores went on strike: The store was Jordan Marsh. The workers were fighting over whether the A.F.L. or an independent, company-dominated union should represent the truck drivers and warehouse men. For more than two weeks Jordan Marsh tried to break the strike by storing their goods in Columbia Record Company warehouses, distributing them in trucks owned by the Kaplan Company of Lowell and using the polite "services" of many other wholesalers who value the department store's powerful friendship. The issue...
Hurry. In Gig Harbor, Wash., firemen roared to a small blaze, scrambled off the truck, attached the hose-one end to one hydrant, the other to another. While they struggled to get things straight, a bystander put the fire...
...ordered a 25% curtailment of local truck deliveries. The carry-it-home-yourself drive was scarcely begun...