Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puppy Special," a baby Austin, called every day last week. The large blue trucks with cream paneling called three times. Along Philadelphia's swank, suburban Main Line, in & around socialite Hewlett, L. I. and in Reading, Pa. they stopped at the homes of William Wallace Atterbury, William Wistar Comfort, Mrs. Isaac Clothier Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and hundreds of others in which were 4,000 dogs, 30 cats and one raccoon. On each truck in large green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young...
...Reedsville, W. Va., coal miners who have more or less permanently lost their jobs are being transported from nearby mines. In New Jersey a group of clothing workers from New York City's slums are to be planted on homesteads and their work brought to them by truck...
...corporation. Contrary to popular belief, accounting is not an exact science. Charges, reserves, write-offs, appraisals, etc. are matters of opinion. Though profits or losses are calculated to the last digit, even the smartest auditor cannot predict the precise day when a lathe will cease to turn or a truck wear out. Best he can do is to estimate, with the management's help, the probable life of plant & property, set aside an approximate sum for depreciation. Having done this and all the other duties of a good auditor, he fixes his hand to a "fair view...
...Minneapolis Council was in session, and the mob came back, 6,000 strong-strong also in convictions, for the Northwest has a considerable floating labor population, a type always more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks...
...Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang: "I can't give you anything but love, father." Between hymns they chanted steadily: "He is God, he is God, he is God." Silently the sidewalk world listened, stared. The procession arrived at the Harlem Hospital...