Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candy, coal and chemicals, soap and scrap iron, fertilizer, leather, glass, paper, old rubber and garden truck were some of the things Interstate Commerce Commissioners in Washington pondered last week when opponents of the railroads' petition for a 15% freight rate increase began to present their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their...
Last week, however. Sir Thomas was a member. The Squadron's burgee flew from the Shamrock's truck and from the stern of his steam yacht Erin floated the White Ensign, a flag which only ships of the Royal Navy and yachts of the Royal Squadron may carry. But he did not set foot in the clubhouse last week or step on the sacred lawn. That was his rebuttal for the years that he had been denied membership...
...ether. He quickly telephoned the police station, "A man's carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge de Zaldo was just about to receive the trunk when Elmer & Rudolph swooped, arrested broker and truckman, opened the trunk...
James ("Jimmy") Archer, oldtime famed catcher for the Chicago Cubs, is now a buyer in Chicago's Union Stockyards. Last week he saw two men tumble unconscious from the driver's seat of a truck whose cargo of hogs he was appraising. Aware that they had been riding in an enclosed cab, Buyer Archer guessed they had carbon monoxide poisoning, applied prone pressure (artificial respiration), revived both men in a half hour. The National Safety Council pinned its President's Medal upon Jimmy Archer...
...Excellent as is General Motors' management, it has not been able to work its magic upon Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co. to which the first half brought a $1,046,000 loss against a $1,437,000 profit...