Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached the main palace gate, it was stopped by a squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their rifles, ordered everybody out of the machine. They pushed aside Father Sandino and the Minister of Agriculture. Sandino, his brother and his two generals they hustled into a motor truck. The truck careened out past long rows of silent peasant shacks, past the airport, to the little crossroads of La Reynaga. A few frightened Indians peered from their cabins as the guardsmen prodded four men in polished black puttees to the ground. A machine gun barked in the night. Four...
...Hannibal, Mo. Mr. Lugena's family laundry was just that. He. his wife, three daughters, a son-in-law and a sister-in-law ran the business, lived upstairs over the plant. Two months ago, NRA compliance officers found Moss Jr., 15, driving his father's laundry truck, in violation of the blanket laundry code which prohibits youths between 14 and 16 from working more than three hours...
...that time their daughter Irene was in swaddling clothes. Eight years later bearded, brooding Pierre Curie was killed by a truck. Now Mme Curie, twice a Nobel Prizewinner, devotes her time to managing the Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much...
Despite its ripe old age the Agriculturist is by no means the biggest or most important among farm journals. Its readers are truck and dairy farmers in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Connecticut. Biggest farm magazine in the U. S. is Curtis Publishing Co.'s Country Gentleman, with a national circulation of 1,738,853. Close behind are Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home and Wilmer Atkinson Co.'s Farm Journal, with 1,500,000 apiece. Successful Farming, published by Meredith Publishing Co. in Des Moines with special attention to stock raising...
...moment it looked as if the calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed by this careful planning, the animal surrendered without a bawl. Ten minutes later the calf was once more safely ensconced in the Packing Company's truck, on his way to become "roast prime ribs...