Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German Cornejo, 52-year-old Mexican farm worker, heard there might be some kind of work for him across the border. He loaded relatives and friends into his truck and from Sonoyta lightheartedly set forth. Nineteen miles from San Luis the truck's wheels sank into the sand, stuck fast...
...years the machine has been slowly taming the hellion lumber industry. The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck. But the trees still had to be cut down by hand. The faller (who chops and saws the tree), the bucker (who saws the timber into logs) were indispensable reminders of the lusty, whiskered logger of old. They may not be much longer. Like the black cotton pickers of the South,* they are on their way to limbo...
...Although June quarter sales of General Motors rose 50% over 1940 to a record $699,898,000, taxes almost tripled (to $93,208,000), thus held profits to $53,-580,000, 15% above 1940. Truck maker White Motor Co. had a similar experience: first-half sales rose 71%, profits 6%. But price-cutting Nash-Kelvinator, its June quarter sales up almost 75%, lifted profits from $902,000 to $2,607,000-best in over a decade...
...Washington housewife rushed out of her house, retrieved a coffee pot which her child had thrown into a collection truck, withdrew $300 in bills, tossed the pot back. Said the housewife: "My life's savings...
...Yorker wrote to Mayor LaGuardia: "Help me find the reason my husband can't get no work. We got aluminum pots, but nothing to put in them. So send a truck to pick up same...