Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what promised to be the last day of the session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...
...Most of them have been losing money for a decade and would need several very profitable years before they could brew dividends for shareholders. Colossi in the ruined industry are Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Pabst Corp. Anheuser-Busch has built up profitable sidelines in yeast, ice-cream, ginger ale, truck bodies, coal. If beer is legalized the company can in two hours start turning out about half of its pre-Prohibition yearly output of 1,600,000 bbl. The company is ready to spend some $7,000,000 for material and extensions. One of its major needs would...
Kentuckians and Ohioans begged truck rides in Cincinnati...
...railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars but virtually ceased freight operations eastward over the line, the militia was called out. Ugliness and perhaps bloodshed were avoided by East St. Louis merchants and ex-service men who provided 200 Ib. of sausage meat and free truck transportation to Washington, Ind., thus shifting an unpleasant situation into the lap of a neighbor State...
...American Expeditionary Force, so he began promoting prizefights in a small way. He discovered Primo Camera, became a millionaire (in francs), is now impresario of the big Palais des Sports, the Tex Rickard of Paris. Last week he also had several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge. The lions yawned, played with the desert's papier...