Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, less than a month after stormy Camillien Houde was elected mayor of Montreal, came a move to oust him from his $10,000-a-year job. One Léo Doré, identified only as a truck driver and obviously acting for someone else, filed a petition in superior court to have Mayor Houde's election annulled...
Voleurs! Assassins! "One bulky elderly Belgian with a cane in his hand was forcibly restrained from smashing it over the heads of two German prisoners by MPs. As they jumped into a British truck to be taken away for interrogation, he cried: 'Voleurs! Assassins!' He told his story determinedly. Three days ago in Marcourt-just across the river-German soldiers rounded up all the young girls and drove them like cows from soldier billet to soldier billet where they were forced to service the troops. One man-the speaker's brother-in-law-hid his two daughters...
...Sirs: . . . Photos of war casualties may make some work harder in vital industries, some gripe less, sacrifice more. But printing pictures of pitiful traffic tragedies (TIME, Dec. 25) will not make kids stop playing in the streets when there is nowhere else to play. It will not make truck drivers or other drivers cease driving as if they owned the streets. It will not make society rearrange its communities so that kids may have ample play space safe and separate from traffic lanes. Or will...
Family groups in fours and fives pushed and pulled at carts loaded with all their possessions. There were trucks of all kinds, American trucks almost new and G.M.C.s ready for the junk yard. There were old German trucks burning stinking diesel oil, commercial trucks burning sweet-smelling alcohol. Every truck was piled five to ten feet high with baggage or goods. Humanity clustered over the baggage on the trucks, over the mudguards, over the driver...
June. A Dixon, Calif, newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother...