Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Regulation of competing motor carriers by the Interstate Commerce Commission, with permission for railroads to supply supplementary truck and bus service...
...chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle corps, an automobile that had crossed the continent with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a cage full of pretty girls on a truck, a French box car, lowans armed with ears of corn, cowboys from Wyoming...
White made both passenger cars and trucks until the end of the War. The War brought it big orders and a reputation for performance. In the Battle of Verdun the only White trucks to break down were those disabled by shells. 'The result was that 2,500 of them received the distinction of France's Croix de Guerre. Geared to truck production, White decided to specialize in it after the War, just as Packard decided to specialize in passenger cars. The White line is now complete, from light city delivery wagons to heavy duty trucks, patrol cars, armored cars, busses...
Last night, as the Vagabond slowly climbed to his dusty sanctum beneath the moldy crags of Memorial Hall, the world was good, and his heart was warm. The crash of heavy trunks reverberates slowly through sacred elms, and the last empty truck rattles futile chains as it whisks into the night; the faint whispering echos of listless leather on cold marble pass into infinity, and friendly beacons twinkle from the yard. Freshmen are a strange race characterized by anxiety, pennants, mothers, and rubbers; but they are dear to the Vagabond. The old fellow envies their careless confusion, he,--ah, there...
...White House elevator broke down. Into the White House grounds drove a repair truck. On the front of it was a plate: "Repeal the 18th Amendment." On the rear a sign read: "Vote for Roosevelt...