Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government was sending squads of engineers last week to build four landing fields at 100 mi. intervals between Alice Springs and The Granites. In The Granites, a wild, desolate territory, infested by savage blacks and savage insects, diggers had struck gold. Six expeditions were pushing toward the strike by truck, tractor, horseback, camel and by airplane. Every available ship was in demand to rush in food & water, rush out yellow dust...
...animosity between the Blue & Grey made news in the East. In the South there has been reciprocal licensing trouble before. The Highway Users Conference, whose membership includes rubber, petroleum and motor interests as well as truck operators, lays the whole license ruction at the doors of railway lobbyists in State Legislatures. Last week, while the Pennsylvania-New Jersey feud went on, a joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees...
...Junior Association of Commerce undertook to salvage the Symphony. It relayed the S. O. S. ("Save Our Symphony") into schools, office-buildings, homes. Doctors, lawyers, merchants and insurance-men organized committees to ask for anything from $1 up. One A. K. Johnson, truck-farmer, drove 17 miles from Wayzata with his dollar. Bands paraded the loop daily...
...Bacon statuary group for the Memorial Church, which was moved from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York by motor truck, arrived in the Harvard Yard yesterday morning and is now resting on the front portico of the Chapel. The statue, representing a mother and her soldier son, will be moved into the Memorial Room of the Church as soon as staging being used by decorators inside can be taken down, probably the latter part of this week...
They entered the Yard. The Vagabond paused dramatically and pointed toward the Chapel but a laundry truck rolled into view and the gesture was ruined. The Chapel would have to speak for itself. The Friend, however, spoke for it when the truck had cleared away. "Oh my", he said...