Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson was tried before another judge, white-haired, lantern-jawed William Washington Callahan. The all-white Alabama jury consisted of nine farmers, a painter, a store keeper, a truck driver...
...Holiday movement plowed to a standstill but not without loud backfirings. Wham! a cheese factory went up at Belgium, Wis. Wham! Wham! two more were dynamited at Krakow and Zachow. Repudiating their Holiday leader, Wisconsin farmers, bundled against the biting winter winds, held up city-bound milk and food trucks, braved ax handles, tear gas and blackjacks, stormed the Sunshine dairy at Waterford three times in a day, destroying 34,000 Ib. of milk by dumping it on the ground, pouring gasoline in the vats. Thirty-five picketers at Wausau were arrested, thrown in jail, after they demolished a truck...
...Chicago boys had never seen so much fish at once in their life, and since Chicagoans have a well-known hunger for fresh salt-water fish, a Yankee money-making idea was promptly hatched. With their last pennies they bought a refrigerator truck; which they loaded with the sea-food; and set out with all haste toward Chicago. For a whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each...
...milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout the state. Near Marshfield a farmer trying to sell a load of wood was brutally clubbed. A picketer near Madison was shot and killed by a truck driver running a blockade...
...heavy six-horse hitches, in which the team of R. C. Flannery of Kansas. Ill. outpointed Anheuser-Busch's spanking bay Clydesdales and glittering brewery truck...