Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penny-ante poker game." Other students marched in to Troy's four commercial banks, flourished paper currency, demanded change-in pennies. In one bank the manager reluctantly dumped 100,000 pennies into canvas bags, turned them over to students for $1,000 in bills.* A laundry truck driver toured the city collecting pennies from housewives. Unaware of this concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives and bankers by nightfall had given up to the penny-pinching students some 250,000 pennies, half of the city's supply. By that time Troy was beginning to mutter, and retail commerce...
...night along U. S. highways travelers sometimes see a dozen huge trucks parked around a filling station or a roadside restaurant, the drivers sleeping in their cabs, drinking coffee or talking shop. If they listen to these men, they can hear stories of the true nomads of the American working class-of drivers who virtually live in their trucks, drive 30 hours without sleep, travel the roads for weeks without getting to bed. Last week a 29-year-old California truck driver summoned up some of this strange nocturnal life on wheels in a brief first novel...
Once the most famed of automobile firms, Fierce-Arrow began by making bird cages in 1870. First automobile was made in 1901. By the time of the World War the plant was booming on truck contracts for the Army. The company was bought by Studebaker in 1928, in 1929 had net earnings of $2,566,112. Left a grass widow when Studebaker went into receivership, Fierce-Arrow lost $3,000,000 in 1932 in the face of Depression and better cheap cars. In 1933 a group of Buffalo businessmen paid $1,000,000 for the Pierce plant, tried...
Partly by reason of their religion Jewish farmers differ from most others. Although they engage in many forms of agriculture (but chiefly poultry and truck farming), they tend to live in groups; for Jewish dietary laws and ritual practices are hard to fulfill in isolation, and ten Jewish men is the smallest permissible group for public worship. With well developed commercial instincts many a Jewish farmer also takes in summer boarders...
...TOWN-Edna Ferber- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Two novelettes- one about a Midwesterner married to a New York socialite, the other about rich New Yorkers who complain bitterly of the hardships of a Pullman trip over the route taken by their pioneer ancestor-demonstrating, with Ferber dummies and sound truck, that rich people are not living up to pioneer traditions...