Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven weeks of possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road or by rail and then truck in from suburban Alcala de Henares. This route is now being made the course of a new railroad and the line from Madrid northeast to Huesca is being extended southeast to Utise for another rail connection to Valencia...
British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested...
...that isn't all he saw. Later in the day he spotted another delivery truck, this time parked outside an undertaker's establishment. Inscribed in gay letters upon its side was "Tatler's High Class Tripe...
...least you can't blame the reving reporter of Cambridge's daily for thinking so. While on his rounds Wednesday he detected the "Dy-Dee" Diaper Service truck parked outside the Yard. A moment later its driver disappeared into Massachusetts Hall with a neatly-wrapped bundle...
...bank president's aid, and the bandits began to fire, wounded both, ran out into the street, jumped into a car. Plunk! A bullet struck the driver's arm, the car crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing, started to run up the street. Plunk! Another bullet struck one of them in the shoulder. Plunk! One of the bandits fell dead. The other ran on, was captured half-mile away...