Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month, therefore, John Hertz and his associates in Lehman Brothers offered to buy it for $3,250,000 ($1,000,000 cash, rest in notes). It so happens that North American Aviation is controlled by General Motors Corp. through ownership of nearly 30% of its stock. The various Hertz truck and bus lines are General Motors' valued customers and shrewd Financier Hertz knew G. M. would think twice before snubbing his bid for Eastern. But John Hertz reckoned without Eddie Rickenbacker...
Frederick W. Jerome '38 and Morris G. Manker '38, who suffered fractured skulls when the car which Manker was driving crashed into a repair truck on Massachusetts Avenue near Cambridge Common early yesterday morning, have been under treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital through the night. Jerome has been on the danger list since three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Manker's condition is reported as fair...
...which Manker was driving was a coupe. It struck the repair truck on the side. The crash threw William M. McDonald, of Jamica Plain, repairman who was working on the tower, into a pot of hot lead. He received severe burns...
...likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history...
South Carolina's new truck regulation annoyed oil, fruit, fertilizer and logging concerns, whose trucks, legal in neighboring States, were thus made illegal in South Carolina. U. S. truckmen are hopelessly bewildered by the multiple regulations enforced by various States. Eleven ordinary truck trailer, tractor and axle classifications vary according to the State, further complicated by rules, exceptions, footnotes. The Supreme Court decision confirmed highway developers' belief that the only solution for confusing, expensive State regulation of roads is a single, all-powerful Federal Department of Transport...