Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock the Department's newest and shiniest ladder truck was blocking half of Quincy Street behind the Fire House, and a shower of spray fell from the hose at the top of the raised ladder...
Careening down Waterloo Road to the Stockton Food Products Co. came a truckful of spinach. As it slowed to enter the gates, strikers leaped upon it, tore off ropes, tossed crates of spinach into the street. Others dragged Tony Machado, the driver, from his mesh-protected cab. Police rushed to his rescue throwing gas grenades. The strikers fell back coughing, charged again. Behind a barricade surrounding the cannery deputies opened fire with riot guns. In the first fusillade, Striker Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles...
...slight sketch to let you know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers were dealing in bootleg coal; that a 13-year-old was being overworked in a Divine restaurant...
...During the first quarter of 1937, despite strikes and high water, the automobile industry set four new sales records. The Automobile Manufacturers Association announced last week that total U. S. retail motor sales for March were highest on record for that month (480.253), that March truck sales were at an alftime high (72,840), that for the first three months of the year total sales set an alltime record (1,041,301), as did truck sales...
...Manhattan's big National City Bank, sent a letter to stockholders soliciting proxies to use at the annual Reo meeting this week for the purpose of "revitalizing" the board. Wrote young Mr. Vanderlip: "[We have made] an exhaustive and careful investigation of a new plan for automobile and truck production and sales. ... We propose to have the company go ahead with this plan." Automotive Daily News said that the plan provided for production of 40,000 vehicles per year,* which obviously meant a return to the passenger car field, but Mr. Vanderlip said later he was not so sure...