Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas has 66 "ports of entry," California 11, Oklahoma 58 where out-of-State trucks are inspected and loaded with fees. To operate a five-ton commercial truck between Alabama and South Carolina costs its owner $1,100 annually in registration fees, special taxes...
Rupert Lewis was pounding along the smooth Jackson-Vicksburg highway in his truck one night last week, trailing a car ahead. Suddenly the twin taillights in front of him melted into the road, disappeared. Driver Lewis caught a quick glimpse of a black gap in the concrete before his own truck plunged. The lights went out, water rushed into the cab. He smashed a window, somehow came up in a turgid flood...
Finally a car stopped. On the other side of the bayou, another pulled up. The road was blocked. A few drenched survivors of the eeriest U.S. highway tragedy of 1939 joined Truckman Lewis on the road. Later divers and wreckers took his truck and ten pleasure cars from the receding stream, recovered 14 bodies-men, women and one infant. Some had smashed through windows to drown in the flood. Others had been trapped where they sat. One woman had died half out of the back window of a sedan which had landed on its nose on the bayou bottom...
...noon the occupation of the city had begun. In the van were the Italian legion, behind them came the Civil Guard in their famous three-cornered hats, and behind them-truck loads & truck loads of food...
Before going to Spain, Captain Alstrom was a truck driver whose hobby was writing poetry, while Lieutenant Goff was an adagio dancer...