Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hume hired a truck to haul the wreck back to the States at a cost of $7.50. Back home he sold the remains...
Fred J. Sears '42, who styles himself the "Last Republican in Harvard," put in a call last night for 50 students to help him break the Georgian strike, and 600 to "show those (censored) truce breaking truck strikers...
When he read of the killing of the truck driver by a "mob" yesterday, Sears rushed through a long distance call to his father. He begged for permission to ride with the next truck into Boston, Sears senior who often drives his trucks himself, denied his son's plea to "get in on it," and his mother ordered him to stay out of any strike mix ups in Cambridge. "If I can get some support I won't stay out of anything," he proclaimed...
...Harvard faces a food shortage as a result of the Boston area truck strike, one of the places students will be unable to go to augment dining hall fare is the Harvard Square Georgian Cafeteria, for after a six weeks' truce 40 of the Georgian's 47 employees walked out Saturday night and the management has closed up shop...
...College food shortage seems unlikely unless all supplies are shut off from Cambridge by the striking truck drivers. Roy W. Westcott, manager of the College dining halls announced last night that since Harvard is on the "preferred" list with hospitals and other institutions, and since the dining halls are well stocked with canned goods and potatoes, no serious trouble is expected...