Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound up in a hospital after his car turned over three times and one of its wheels flew into the infield, killing a spectator perched atop a truck...
...truck and boat (equipped with only one paddle), Amateur Anderson ferried his transmitter and receiver to a high spot six miles across the flood-swollen Wabash River from Shawneetown. When it became obvious that the Ohio would spill over Shawneetown's flood wall, Shawneetown's residents were evacuated to Indiana and Kentucky on orders received over Ham Anderson's radio. Evacuation was effected without loss of a single life. And after four raw, wet, sleepless days and nights, Ham Anderson went home...
...obtained to supplement the heavier ambulance purchased last year. "This machine darts onto the battlefield, picks up the less seriously wounded, and carries them back to the medical unit, while the heavier vehicle is reserved for those with hurts so serious that such hurried trips in a light truck might have fatal effects...
...Russell Long, a Junior majoring in government, cut his political teeth last year when he got his sister, Rose Lolita, elected president of the Women's Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father on the platform that Baton Rouge townsfolk, who flocked to his pep meetings, enjoyed pretending that the late, egregious Senator was back again...
Biggest suit was started last February by William S. Brown, as president of the General Drivers, Helpers and Inside Workers Union Local 544 in Minneapolis, and individually, also by Farrell Dobbs, a member of the union, and the fabulous Dunne brothers, Grant, Miles and Vincent, who led the spectacular truck drivers' strike in Minneapolis in 1934. The plaintiffs are demanding $470,000 for articles in the Daily Worker linking them with the criminal underworld...