Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pullman Officers who "scouted" the Orientals for Pullman Porters have never witnessed the feats of strength performed every day by millions of Chinamen. It is not uncommon to see three or four Chinamen doing work equivalent to a five-ton truck, or to make it plainer, they will pull a load of, from three to six tons uphill and across country...
...three-quarters centuries make a long time. Few U. S. communities are so old. In one tenth that time, many a U. S. community has changed entirely-the German and Swedish farmers of a Wisconsin county into jitney-riding city stenographers and factory hands; the Italian truck-gardeners of an Ohio township into the proprietors of a bootlegging "Little Italy." Americanization crusades and Progress have made racial slag, temporarily, of much that was pure foreign metal in the North. In the South and Far West, what remains of the Spanish scarcely suffices to fill the realty booklets...
Result of the three Graham brothers* investing some of the millions, which they made by selling out their truck manufacturing business to Dodge Bros., in what is now called the Graham-Paige Motors Corp.: 7,500 cars made this March; 2,428 cars in March 1927; about 12,350 cars and $350,000 earnings in the first three months of this year; 6,006 and $185,798 loss in the first three months of last year...
Snooty spectators may scorn the mechanical thunder of this Willard Mack truck, but they will probably be unable to do so until they are outside of the theatre. It is asserted that Theatreman Mack gathered his material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes...
...back to a closet flat, under the noise of the elevated, where the bathroom door swings open annoyingly, and the Murphy bed clasps catch on blankets. John becomes twice a father and gets an eight dollar raise. John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave him, he gets a sandwichman...