Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poured down on the wheat fields of Red River Valley and on the crowd gathered around a dusty truck. A sunburned farmer squinted appraisingly at a little man standing and shouting on the truck's tailpiece. "He wouldn't be no account on a thrashin' gang," the farmer said. "But I reckon he's smart. And he talks plain...
...scampered up a ladder to stare into a car. He climbed up on the tailgate of Melvin Soundreal's truck. He ran his hands through Soundreal's golden wheat but refused to stand in it for photographers, saying with authority: "That's bad farm practice." Experts agreed that Butch was no authority, but no one minded that. He watched a parade of trucks poop-poop through Climax loaded with 20,000 bushels of wheat. He made a speech, waving a few pieces of macaroni: "This is a day's ration in many places...
...busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws or rains soften to a greasy gumbo navigable only by Dale Kuester's "mud-whoopee," a 1929 Ford roadster that he has cut down into a pick-up truck...
...players in "Bigger than Barnum," Miss Jean Mode and Miss Patricia Neal, will assist in the judging. The feminine trio is expected to arrive at the Square at 4 o'clock. A modest parade of two automobiles and a truck will convey the actresses from Radcliffe down to the Yard, and thence will wend its way among the Houses, winding up outside the Pi Eta Club at 4:30 or 4:45 o'clock...
...truck, loaded with what looked like a big box, rolled along a Washington street last week, came to a stop beside a filling station at the corner of Connecticut and N Streets. Swiftly the boxlike affair was unloaded. In exactly 3½ hours, nine men had turned it into a two-bedroom house, ready for occupancy. In this eye-opening way, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put on exhibition its prefabricated house, built by its subsidiary, Wingfoot Homes...