Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this Administration has been lagging behind the Plan, Old Bolshevik Dybets recently made supreme and successful efforts to raise production at Russia's largest motor works, the Molotov Plant at Gorky. It is now nearly up to planned production, is turning out daily 400 trucks and 82 little sedans of 4-cylinder Ford type. But while this substantial success at the Molotov Plant may please and flatter Soviet Premier Molotov, for whom the factory was named, Soviet Dictator Stalin has been anything but pleased by such results as Old Bolshevik Dybets has been able to achieve...
...were ironed out and a standard phon scale agreed on involving a uniform listening technique, reference tone, and zero level. Some loudnesses measured on this scale are: ticking of watch at 3 ft., 30 phons; tearing of paper at 3 ft., 40; quiet conversation, 60; noisy conversation, 70; noisy truck, 90; proximity of airplane engine, 120; near threshold of pain...
...Detroit's Glenn Meyers and Indiana's Ted Hartley. Winner House-holder's average speed was 65.2 m.p.h. To dapper, mustached 29-year-old Ronney Householder, who grew up with the sport and has been carrying his doodlebug around to races in a specially built truck for four years, his $1,500 share of the prize money was the biggest he had ever won. To his colleagues it was conclusive proof that their diminutive sport was rapidly coming...
...subsequent firing at daybreak, with service ammunition, to check the accuracy of the tpographical operations by which the guns were pointed at their respective targets. The rigors of field service were profusely illustrated on the night of July 30-31st when the Harvard-Yale Battery marched, by truck convey, to Fort Ticonderoga and bivouaced for the night beside the old stone ramparts. It was the first night spent in the open with only pup-tents overhead. Mother Nature celebrated the occasion with a generous baptism of cloudbursts, first from the east, then from the west, and some claim that...
...Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church...