Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused to join a ring quaintly called "Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce." The retailers were unable to get chickens for their markets, or only to get inferior, poisoned poultry. Their homes and shops were destroyed by bombs; their markets burned or polluted by poison gas. Their truck drivers were slugged; the tires of their trucks sliced...
Among those indicted were the Brothers Herbert, most famed and feared by independent poultrymen. It was Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert who held under his pudgy thumb all the truck drivers; who was implicated in bombing the home of Rebel Poultryman Joseph Hasenfratz. It was Charlie Herbert who bossed the Shochetim Union (Jewish slaughterers); who disciplined independents by refusing to kill their chickens according to Jewish dietary laws...
Gripped as usual by the muscles of M. Caillaux's right eye was his monocle. He was reading. Suddenly out of the fog-a truck! Brakes screamed. The chauffeur did his best to swerve. But the long low cradling limousine crashed headon, crumpled, overturned. The monocle, gripped spasmodically at the moment of impact, shattered, terribly cutting M. Caillaux about...
...Ford and G. M. C. invitations looked to speed up Russian industry. The country has 150,000,000 population, but only 22,000 motor vehicles, 40,000 tractors. Complementary to this intention the Soviet has just placed a $250,000 order for truck engines and transmissions with Hercules Motor Corp. of Canton, Ohio, and Brown-Lipe-Chapin Co. (G. M. C. subsidiary) of Syracuse, N. Y. Russians will assemble the machinery in Russian-made 3½-ton trucks and busses...
...Jitney Players have toured the country during the last six summers with a stage constructed on their truck, giving performances at various summer resorts...