Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse trainer, Townsend sometimes races his own horses, sometimes goes on shares with other owners. He travels with the horses, in a truck. His affection is not for the bigtime tracks but for the half-mile county fair circuit in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois which horsemen know as the Frying Pan or Leaky Roof circuit. In 20 years he has acquired a vast acquaintance with this circuit's "bush-riders," carnival people, horse breeders, newspapermen, and with the character of each small-town track. Both Lee Townsend's friends and Manhattan critics last week found the new paintings...
...element in the nation's transport system the bus industry achieved official maturity in 1935 when Congress put it, along with trucking, under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Appropriately the interstate bus drivers went into the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. But interstate bus and truck lines are not yet within the moderating influence of the Railway Labor Act. Result was that with little or no warning, the country last week suffered its first major bus strike. The Railroad Trainmen called out 1,300 drivers on eight Greyhound lines serving 16 States east of the Mississippi...
Motoring in his Ford roadster over wet roads from Soestdyk Palace to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...harness racing in Italy. Ringside gossip had it that Italian experiences in Ethiopia and Spain, plus the European oil crisis have made it highly necessary that Mussolini modify his motorization plans and pay more attention to improving the breed of his cavalry stock. Nobody has yet invented a truck that can use grass for fuel...
...Cincinnati 32 truck drivers of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. and their guests last week celebrated winning the American Trucking Associations' award as the nation's safest fleet in its class at a dinner given by Kroger President Albert Morrill in the big grill room of the Cincinnati Club...