Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done to help cotton this year. . . . Governor Gardner knew that cotton prohibition in the South would play into the hands of the Egypt, Russia et al; he knew the economic loss the South would suffer from no cotton; loss from employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers of loss employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers. He knew that the South would miss the money its crop brings in - around $500,000,000 this year at 6? per Ib. - that some institutions, merchants, banks would suffer...
...Cedar County (where President Hoover was born) President Jake Lenker of the Farmers' Protective Association boasted: "They'll test my cattle only over my dead body." Last week in the village of Tipton, Veterinarian Malcolm assembled Sheriff Foster Maxson with 62 deputies, hoisted into a truck a saddled pony to use in rounding up the cattle, and set out for Farmer Lenker's place...
...farmers, blocking the entrance. Without a moment's hesitation the 200 farmers fell upon the sheriff's men, doused them with water, plastered them with mud, pelted them with rocks, clods and aged eggs, menaced them with pitchforks. Through the melee the Law's truck forced its way into the Lenker farm. Farmer Lenker & friends promptly halted it, forced Sheriff Maxson to pay $5 damages, then shooed the truck back into the road. By this time the deputies were on the run. Dr. Malcolm, who tarried longer than the rest, lost his hat, brief case and suit...
...people are still unaware that in many cities hoodlums extort tribute from laundries. If the tribute is not paid, the laundryman may find his truck smashed, his customers' clothes ruined, his driver's pate cracked. Apparently this unwholesome state of affairs only recently came to the attention of oldtime Playwright Owen Davis. Playwright Davis, 57, does not write mediocre plays. He either writes very good ones or very bad ones. In the latter tradition are such shameless thrillers as Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model; Sal, the Circus Girl; Deadwood Dick...
...driver. The fleeing taxi crossed the Harlem River into Manhattan and made its way to Riverside Drive, leaving two more wounded pedestrians in its wake. Up Riverside Drive it roared, pursued by police taxis. At Dyckman Street, twelve miles from the holdup scene, it was stopped by a truck. Policemen riddled it with bullets and flung open the doors. Out tumbled the taxi driver, dead, and inside were two dead bandits...