Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal truck was bringing a cargo of children from the shanties of striking Pennsylvania miners to Pittsburg, where they intended to beg what little they might get to supplement the Union's vanishing reserves. They were scantily clad in incongruous cast-offs, and their only food for the day was a slice of bread soaked in unpalatable coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free...
...Gwellt or "Little Cottage with the Straw Roof " Built at a cost of $10,000 to advertise the products of 100 Welsh firms, the cottage drew Welsh crowds at Cardiff's Ideal Home & Building Exhibition last autumn. Insured for $6,250, it caught fire while traveling on a truck toward London, has been reconstructed and now contain: the original furniture which was on a second truck. Not until Princess Betty is nearly double her present age will she be permitted to play with the real gas stove and other grown-up gadgets in her cottage...
...Hugo Zucchini. In spite of doctors' objections Sigñor Zacchini climbs into the mouth of a huge cannon mounted on a motor truck, smears himself with soot, is propelled by compressed air 150 ft into a net as a big firecracker goes...
...Negro from Marshall's Corner N.J. had not decided to get out of his truck and relieve himself in the woods a mile from Hopewell last week, a half-dozen accredited negotiators and a hemisphere's police would still be looking for kidnapped, murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...concrete Princeton-Hopewell Road, traveled by the child's friends, kin and every official in New Jersey during the 72-day search, William Allen noticed something round and bright protruding from a mound of rubble and leaves. It looked like a human skull. Negro Allen ran back to the truck and summoned his white companion, Orville Wilson. It was a human skull. On it and nearby were wisps of yellow hair. Wilson hopped in the truck and made for Hopewell, where he found Charley Williams, one of Hopewell's two policemen, in a barber's chair. To him Wilson babbled...