Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis was an open-shop city with a settled dislike for union labor. Against that contempt Vincent Dunne hurled himself, with Brothers Grant and Miles by his side. They organized the truck drivers of the city, got a charter from Dan Tobin's A.F. of L. teamsters, and in 1934 staged two historic strikes. Heads were split, blood spilled, men killed; the employers' hard-boiled Citizens' Alliance was badly beaten. Trade unionism under the Dunne Brothers flourished in Minneapolis from then...
...Propaganda Ministry's press conferences, disappeared about three weeks ago. The day after the Hess flight police rounded up 20 truckloads of men in north Berlin. Many of them were in Storm Trooper uniforms and were being kicked by the Gestapo as they got on the truck...
...past month, Drs. Harry Reginald DeSilva of Yale and Walter Richard Miles of the National Research Council have tested over 4,000 men for Army truck-driving jobs. After noticing that the Negroes seemed to have a keener night vision, Dr. Miles picked at random seven white and eight Negro soldiers, lined them up in a field on a dark night. Then he walked to a point 100 feet away, held up a stick with a square of white cardboard on each end. The soldiers were asked whether the stick was horizontal or vertical...
...Chairman Joe Eastman, addressing the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards in Chicago, urged shippers to use the railroads as sparingly as possible. "If a barge will do the trick, use the barge," cried he, "if a truck will do the trick, use the truck...
...Hoover Representative Ralph Haswell Lutz (now chairman of the Library's Board of Directors) strolled around to the soviet offices to see how things were going. The Communists were all gone. "You may remember," says Hoover pleasantly, "that a number of them killed themselves." So Lutz had a truck back up to the door, removed two large packing cases full of records to the U.S. Consulate where he defended them against all comers. Later the Horthy Government requested that they be returned. The Hoover Library agreed provided the Hungarians would supply photostatic copies...