Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highway between Washington and Baltimore the Patapsco River, raging out of bounds, swallowed up two Army sergeants, a truck driver and a motorist who had tried to navigate the flooded road...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...
...Chicago. Through them engineers guide small electric locomotives (running on a 2-ft. gauge track and powered by current from wires overhead) which draw trains of ten or 15 "freight cars" each four feet wide and twelve feet long-carrying about as much goods as a fair-sized motor truck. The freight tunnel system, begun in 1901, was mainly an accident; the first tunnels were built by an independent telephone company which went on the rocks. Reorganization followed; Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman put in new capital. The system was enlarged, 49 connections made with different freight terminals...
...Three-Cornered Moon," was a member of the group while as undergraduate. Randall C. Burwell '24, of Boston, and J. J. Collier '24, and Richard H. L. Skinner '22, were all actors during the early years. In spite of warnings of critcs Bushnell Cheney started out with a Ford truck with a converted chasis which served as the stage and another smaller car for the lights. During their first year they toured Southern New England and met with instant success. The following year they extended their tour to include Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and received commendations from critics...
About ten out of the sixty evenings during the summer when they are playing it rains, but the stage equipment is arranged so that it can be separated from the truck and set up in a hall. At one point on their journey the State Police nearly sentenced them to a month n jail, mistaking th truck and its variegated baggage for gypsy bootleggers...