Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those Phonies." At week's end some half a million men were out of work, some 1,500 U.S. ships were immobilized, 280,000 tons of food and relief goods for overseas shipments were blocked. New York, also embarrassed by a truck strike (see below), wondered how long it would eat. Everyone looked hopefully and reproachfully at the Government...
Ambition. In Atlantic City, three-year-old David Cavanaugh started an empty milk truck, crashed into a car, ricocheted into another, smacked into a house, got out unhurt, declared: "I want to be a milkman...
Baron Digby turned milkman when none of his 40 employes could drive the newly purchased delivery truck. Now his Lordship likes to drive it so much that he won't give...
Died. John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons (Du Barry Was a Lady, Anchors Aweigh, Her Highness and the Bellboy); of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
Starting Seed. In 1930 he went into commercial radio as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist," advertising bird seed. Next year, while "one of NBC's dullest announcers, and that's saying plenty," he was hit by a truck, spent four months in a hospital, listening hour after hour to the radio...