Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis said he had been aroused out of bed at 6:45 o'clock Saturday morning to report for service with the Guardsmen and that the Undergraduates had been called at the same time. Those who grabbed their uniforms for the first truck included I. Tucker Burr 3rd '39, Graham B. Blaine, Jr., '40, John Hoar. Jr. '40, Paul G. Counihan '39, John T. Coolidge, 3rd '41, and Malcolm Marshall...
...pull Hilda up again it took eight men from the Department of Parks, a derrick truck, block & tackle. Attendants said she had no bones broken but she refused to move her hind legs. A sling was rigged to hold up her body and give them a rest...
...radio. Its horsed cavalry rode to battle and sent its mounts back while it did its fighting. Motorized field artillery (still largely the World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some of the army's 283 light tanks tried out against new anti-tank guns which can supposedly stop any tank within range...
...paradox that by modern standards such Kahn buildings as the Dodge truck plant (see cut) are nearer to 90% art. It is another paradox that when Albert Kahn gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert...
...Reaffirmed with slight modifications the hours of service restrictions for the trucking industry as drawn up last December. Originally scheduled to go into effect July 1, these rules were postponed upon protests from Labor, which wanted a maximum 8-hr, day, 48-hr, week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that...