Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terminal Cab, incorporated January 1930, buys from General Motors Truck Corp. Buyer and seller alike are subsidiaries of Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...
...longer does Yellow Taxi Corp. buy its cabs from General Motors Truck Corp., which once supplied all Yellows. It buys from Checker, gradually disposing of its old General Motors cabs to independents. There are some 9,000 Checker cabs on New York streets, but Checker does not operate its own cabs. Second largest non-operating producer is Paramount, with over 2,000 cabs. A new company called Parfour Corp., organized by William May, William Day and Harry Junker, has bought from Paramount 85 sleek cream-colored cabs with chocolate trim, calling itself Fresh Air Taxi, in honor of Amos...
...Bellwood, Pa., Donald W. Wertz, driving a loaded ice truck, hailed a stranger confidently: "I have 20 cases of beer on that truck. You can help yourself if you watch it while I take a nap." The stranger arrested sleepy Mr. Wertz, for he was E. D. James, local chief of police...
...desperation the fat Mayor of Germersheim leaped upon a truck, begged the mob in the Fatherland's name to disgrace Germany no further, promised to go to Munich and intercede in their behalf...
California, he noted, has one motor car for every three persons, one divorce for every 3.3 marriages, $4,007 per capita wealth. Georgia has one car (or truck) to 7.7 persons, one divorce for every 14 marriages (many of Georgia's divorce cases go there from South Carolina, whose laws do not allow divorces), $1,306 per capita wealth...