Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd of Wiggins men watched them start. Toward noon, while Sheriff Hinton and his men were looking for McGowan at the Ten-Mile sawmill where he used to work, the Wiggins town siren sounded. Sheriff Hinton knew what that meant. The mob had found McGowan sleeping under a truck at his grandmother's house. Afterold Mrs. N identified him, they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body...
...William B. Brown's appeal was carried by the Columbia and National Broadcasting Systems as fears increased that the comely girl, seized by two men in a black delivery truck, may have been ravished and murdered...
Meantime state, local and Washington police, Federal Bureau of Investigation and volunteer posses of farmers and CCC youths continued their search for the truck and the abductors' hideout, following clues furnished by Lucy...
Most successful trick employed by the Japanese is to slip Japanese uniforms on rubber dummies, stand them up in open trucks and thus deceive the guerrillas into thinking that the truck convoys are too heavily guarded for attack. Both sides frequently use dummies. Other correspondents have reported that Japanese bombers rain tons of expensive explosives on Chinese ''airplanes" and "tanks" which, upon capture, turn out to be reed matting or wooden imitations placed in the open to draw fire. Last week pictures arrived in the U. S. which show heads and shoulders of Chinese "soldiers...
There they discovered that they were the only holders of the winning combination, were handed a check for $6,754.50 for their $2 investment. Reporters quickly realized that only one parimutuel payoff in U. S. turf history had been larger: $7,205 won by a Jersey City truck driver at Miami's Tropical Park three years...