Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these stories you read in the daily papers, most of them are just propaganda gotten up by one side or the other. I certainly ought to know for I was in the front line with a machine-gun battalion at the seige of Teruel and drove an ammunition truck with supplies at the Madrid front...
...mobile Rightist force intercepted a truck from Madrid loaded with stocks and bonds which it had been hoped could be taken off in a Leftist ship. Don Rafael Clarimón Ferraz, a director of the Bank of Saragossa, made the Rightist inventory, reported the truck from Madrid had contained 30 cases and one box of securities from various banks in South Leftist Spain, including nine cases from the Madrid correspondent of the Bank of Saragossa...
...foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
Sholtz campaign schedule calls for half-a-dozen speeches a day-two in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon, one at night. A sound truck with a 25-record library precedes him. Another accompanies him to broadcast his speech which lasts only 40 minutes, is always the same. Each of the three candidates by the time they stop touring next week, will have covered all the towns with over 500 population, in Florida's 67 counties. Driving between towns, diligent Candidate Sholtz makes a practice of stopping at every filling station, general store, to distribute...
...personal responsibility for defeating it on the grounds that his reports of local feeling caused four other Representatives to change their votes. In Florida's current political cockfight, Cracker Boy Wilcox's chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed at $3,000 to $6,000 for Sholtz, $7,000 for Pepper; 3) he made the best wisecrack of the campaign...