Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These...
...Rutgers one day last week 34 members of Lambda Chi Alpha were at luncheon when up drove a truck from which 700 gal. of fuel were piped into the tank of their oil-burning furnace. After luncheon all but nine members went off to classes...
...minutes later a wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into...
Washington, March 22--Complete re-organization of the nation's facilities for handling freight in less than carload lots, with rail and truck transportation co-ordinated, is proposed in a report made public tonight by Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordinator of transportation...
...other day interested passers by might have been mildly surprised to see a huge van pull up and stop in front of the Lowell House west gate. Three rather surly looking, individuals in coveralls disembarked, opened up the rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall. There were eleven monstrous canvas bags, each sealed and franked with the impressive insignia of the United States government. Slowly and laboriously they were dragged, one at a time, up the steps to the quarters of a studious sophomore, who received in great astonishment both the bags and the black looks...