Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week centred about the mail truck hold-up at Elizabeth, N. J., in which a Government employe was killed and $300,000 worth of registered mail was stolen. Postmaster General Harry S. New arose with a battle cry: "If it takes the Army and Navy to do it, the United States mails must be protected and the lives of postal employes safeguarded...
...assured fact, the time was bound to come when groups of actors would take to the road again, offering theatrical wares un- der desirable conditions of time and place. However, Bushnell Cheney was the first to have the foresight, the initiative, and the mechanical gifts to design the truck with its equipment, and to organize the actors and put them on the road...
...Burrell '24, their advance agent. They use a collapsible stage, designed by Mr. Cheney, the owner of the company. This stage is fitted on a specially constructed Ford chassis, and can be unfolded quickly at each stopping place. A very elaborate lighting plant is built on another truck...
...only serious accident of the tour occurred on the Storm King Highway near West Point, New York. I was driving 'Jezebel', the supply truck, down a very steep hill. With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through...
After the secretary of the Massachusetts Motor Truck Club had conferred with the Honorable John McDonald, Highway Commissioner of Connecticut, a special permit and a State highway inspector were assigned the Harvard contingent to facilitate the transportation of the ceiling from New York to Cambridge...