Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire a man for one hour, say to load a truck, and pay him one dollar-I must collect from him one cent-discover his full name-his Social Security number-and make an individual report on the deal at the end of the six-month period...
...Speeding military trucks added to the confusion, running down soldiers and refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...
...police chief last week for offering the same alibis for the city's disorder that had been used "ever since you were a harness bull." Once when a cantankerous office-seeker called him a buckpasser, Mr. Riley, an Oregon State Agricultural Collegeman, whose post-graduate work included truck driving, replied that "no son of a bitch can call me a buck-passer," and forthwith thrashed the fellow purple...
...driving 1,400,000 miles without accident or arrest Allen Bush Hill, 55, of Corpus Christi, Tex., was last week awarded a $150 Elgin watch and the title "World's Safest Truck Driver" by the American Trucking Associations.* During the 30 years it took him to establish the record, he averaged 46,600 miles per year, not counting nine months driving with the A. E. F.'s Fifth Engineers. More than a quarter of his mileage was covered in one G. M. C. truck. Driver Hill advised: "Give all the road you can, take all they...
...Truck drivers are spoken of as knowing a lot about the threat and hazard of fatigue, but "college students, who ought to have intelligence comparable to that of a truck driver, even if they lack his experience, appear to pay little attention either to fatigue or speed when completing a long journey at night...