Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest drivers," he declared, "are truck drivers. Their judgment skill, and coordination are perfect. And the worst drivers, without a doubt are women...
...France would be asked to join, guaranteeing the safety of the Rhineland. As the discussions continued, the German Foreign Minister emphasized that Germany had no intention of returning to the League of Nations, and Mussolini sympathetically indicated that Italy, though still a member of the League, would have no truck with Geneva until the Italian conquest of Ethiopia is recognized...
Knapp's room mate, William S. Baxter '37 returned to his room in Leverett House at 3:45 o'clock yesterday morning and opened the door to be met by heavy black smoke. He immediately turned in an alarm, resulting in the arrival of Cambridge's familiar ladder truck and two fire engines. The "smoke eaters" promptly threw an upholstered chair which had been ignited by a cigarette out the window...
...April 8 by a strike of United Rubber Workers. Returning workers were hooted and stoned by picketers, and when they sent out the first truckload of their products, the strikers tossed more rocks to stop it. Returning tear-gas bombs, police charged into battle. The scuffle stopped when the truck retreated into the plant. The strikers jeered the sheriff when he appeared to read the Riot Act. For safety's sake, the non-union workers decided to stay inside...
...been changed because the Chippewas prefer to live by Government checks rather than by agriculture. From now on the Indian timber lands will be cut on a selective plan, which means comparatively few acres each year, and the logs will be taken to mill by rail and truck instead of floated down roaring rivers in the spring by shouting men with peaveys and hobnailed boots...