Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whence was to come the extra $130,000,000 to balance the next budget? Nobody wanted to increase excise ("nuisance") taxes. A levy on interstate truck traffic was a shot in the dark. The President-elect had barred the sales tax. Out of much talk evolved a proposal to fall back upon the income tax as the only likely source of new revenue. When the conference broke up near midnight Speaker Garner and Senator Robinson outlined almost in unison the following plan...
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat of the Soviet Union's biggest truck factory. When the brigade arrived Gorki was plunged in gloom. Officials had just turned in their year-end report, admitted that during 1932 Gorkites built only 7,500 trucks, compared to the Five-Year Plan scheduled production...
...chested gnomes in leather aprons who had rolled up their sleeves for action. Striding into the spacious vault they advanced upon a mass of gold roughly eight times as great as the order called for. The bars, neither bright nor corroded, lay in faintly gleaming piles on low wooden trucks with small, rubber-tired wheels. To each truck slated for moving was attached one of the white tags, reading "Federal Reserve Bank...
Gold is such heavy stuff that a 17-in. cube weighs a ton. It took four husky gnomes to budge each little truck. They trundled the selected trucks a distance of 30 ft. across the vault, bunched them together against the wall. Having seen this done, Governor Norman's emissary returned upstairs and a cable was dispatched to the Federal Reserve Bank...
...Bridgeport, Conn., police charged Harry Goldberger, 35, with being the hit-&-run driver of a motor truck which killed his father, Kalman Goldberger, 70. Father Goldberger, unable to read or write, had charged his sons in Superior Court with inducing him to sign a paper transferring to them his prosperous produce business. The Court ordered the sons to pay him $1,000 at once, $40 monthly for the remainder of his life...