Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Snite was laid in this machine. Then he was obliged to learn an utterly new mode of life, which he learned so well that last week, still in his respirator, he could begin a 9,000-mi. voyage by truck, train and ship from Peiping to Chicago...
...recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures. They hate Rosamund for her success, are always borrowing money from her. Except for them, she has almost no truck with the outside world...
Affidavits from the arresting officer and witness declare that Mr. Blackton, driving a truck, was stopped by officers as he approached a courthouse at which the permits are supplied, and was notified that such a permit was necessary and requested to obtain same. Without hesitation and in plain view of the officers who had notified him, Mr. Blackton drove his truck past the courthouse and on out of town. The officers followed, arrested him as they should have, and brought him back to be fined. To show further that Mr. Blackton knew well in advance what the requirements were...
...Although truck drivers covering several States are usually intelligent enough to inquire about local regulations, we have today ordered large signs erected at points where major highways cross the State line for the future guidance of drivers of commercial vehicles who, like Salesman Blackton, may otherwise wish to plead ignorance...
There was to be no repetition of 1919's violence. Aliquippa's police chief decided once that the C. I. O. pickets looked threatening, tossed a few tear gas bombs at them. Strikers battered a U. S. mail truck which they thought was taking ammunition into the plant. A few hardy non-unionists tried to crash the picket lines, best scrap being put up by irate old H. L. Queen, longtime company storekeeper. "I've got a job and I'm going to it," cried he. When pickets seized him, H. L. Queen sank his teeth...