Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing to say. He twirled his cane nervously. "Are you still optimistic?" asked a pert newshawk. The Secretary stopped, turned, answered: "Yes, I am. If anything happens to the President's plan, it would be a crime." Then he crossed the street, neatly dodging a delivery truck...
...clock next morning, a truck carrying men to work at Pricedale (Pittsburgh Coal Co.) rumbled through Arnold. Strikers blocked the road, pleaded with the strikebreakers. Then a little boy threw an egg at one of the convoying deputies. The shooting started. One Mike Filopovich, 40, father of five, ran to the door of his store, which also houses the National relief station. One slug clipped him in the head, another in the chest. He died instantly. Four strikers were wounded. Six constables and two Coal & Iron policemen were arrested for the killing. The Governor ordered an investigation...
Newsstories that he had died of typhoid fever made Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, Vice-Commander of the Nanking Government's Army & Navy, sit up and take notice in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping last week. Among other things typhoid-convalescent Chang noticed that the first motor truck ever built in China had snorted out of his great arsenal in Mukden...
Engine, gears and other complicated parts of Chang's truck were imported from the U. S.; but his arsenal made the steel wheels, frame, radiator and other simple parts. Said a spokesman for China's first truck...
...Papal State. He advocated, according to Il Lavoro, action by Azione Cattolica to seize the Italian State and set up a "Catholic dictatorship." What happens in hot-blooded countries when they are highly organized soon happened. A marching column of young Fascists pounced on a Papal State mail truck, halted by their parade in the square directly in front of Premier Mussolini's offices. One hot youth promptly attacked the truck driver with a stick, fetched him a blow on the arm. That night Catholic Christendom rang with the outrage. Catholics stated that some of His Holiness...