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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest year, found itself in an excellent position to bear out that saying. Its own stability was implied by its possession of a car for every pocketbook-Cadillac, Buick, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet; of specialties and accessories- Yellow Cab and Coach, G. M. C. Truck, Delco Light, Fisher Body, Jackson Wheel, A. C. Spark Plug, Harrison Radiator; and of the huge sideline, Frigidaire, which ranked only after Buick and Chevrolet as an earner this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Biggest Industry | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...could and do make "Bevo," near beer, ginger ale, root beer, malt extracts, food tonics, grape drinks, starch, glucose, syrups; live stock and poultry foods from the grain residues; yeast, which is rapidly becoming an important product. His wagon works he re-arranged so that it could make motor truck and bus bodies. His cabinet workers who used to make bar fixtures were idle. He set them to making cabinets for ice cream par lors. His refrigerating engineers devised a refrigerated motor truck and compact drug store coolers. In Manhattan, New Organs and Oklahoma City, Anheuser-Busch branches are making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kolossal | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Along came Mr. Charles Hart, of the Athletic Association. He gazed at the band squatting shivering on a baggage truck, its crimson feathers drooping. "Well!" said Mr. Hart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strongminded Statesman and Stupendous Steamengine Save Students From Starvation, Stranded in Stygian Station | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...jury box, of a tiny courtroom in Somerville, N. J. The air was stuffy. An angular court crier (John Bunn by name) intoned in a creaky voice, "Hear ye. . . ." The reporters' pencils moved rapidly, their eyes searched the faces of the witnesses, the defendants, the lawyers. Occasionally a truck rumbled through the street outside. In here, a certain Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, the Messrs. Henry and "Willie" Stevens, were on trial for the murder of a clergyman and a choir singer. All the Real INSIDE NEWS of the Hall-Mills Murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Under The Crabapple Tree | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...started a canvass of the University dormitories. Antique hats, shirts, coats, trousers, all the essentials for the well-dressed man of several years ago are the objects desired by the Phillips Brooks collectors. These men are calling at the students' rooms and are carrying away by truck the clothing donated by each dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND OF 125 PROSECUTES CLOTHING DRIVE OF P.B.H. | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

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