Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...lost their lives in the World War. Bacon was a trustee of Harvard. The statue was originally intended for the Harvard chapel but has been in the cathedral since 1923. The four and a half ton piece of Caen stone will be moved to Harvard Yard by truck...
Under Studebaker, White will be run as a separate unit, just as are Fierce-Arrow and Rockne. Economies will be made by joint purchases of raw materials, by White's use of the big Studebaker sales organization. Studebaker's truck business, hitherto small, will probably be combined with White's. It is thought that the chief White executives will be retained. First among these is Ashton G. Bean who succeeded Mr. Woodruff as president two years ago. He is a forceful, hard-headed executive who has made automobile accessories, automatic telephones, phonograph motors and is still president of Bishop & Babcock...
...Widely rumored last week was a manufacturing and sales agreement between International Harvester's truck department and Willys-Overland Co. Possible result: a $400 car to sell to farmers through International Harvester's 200 branches...
...years 75 men in the New York City Department of Sanitation have led double lives. Ostensibly employed as street cleaners, stablemen and garbage truck drivers, they have spent much of their time tootling on brass instruments, dressing themselves up in gorgeous blue & gold uniforms to furnish music for city celebrations. The sanitation bandsmen welcomed the King & Queen of the Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they...