Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grade crossing six miles east of Toledo, the N. Y. Central's famed 20th Century Limited collided at 75 m.p.h. with a truck tractor and semitrailer owned by Sentle Trucking Co. The railroad promptly sued Harvey H. Sentle, declaring that his driver had been negligent since the railroad operated flasher warnings at the crossing. The driver retorted that he stopped at the warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
...outside the hallowed cloisters of Kirkland House, a garbage truck was loading its inimitable wares and in return, unloading the empty tin cans noisily on the side walk. This din continued for a few months to the misery of all in the neighborhood when one appeared, who, by his bearing, was evidently chief among the garbage coterie. His minions, not noticing him, continued their cacophony until a shout silenced them momentarily...
...sporting institution, by winning the National League championship three times, but they have made themselves the No. 1 institution of Green Bay where, unlike the members of football or baseball teams representing other cities, most of them have settled down to live, follow off-season callings like truck-driving, baseball and the law. In the first 18 years of their history, the Packers have had many narrow escapes. In 1922, when their sponsors owed $1,600 in back salaries, local businessmen formed a corporation to finance the team. The Packers repaid their benefactors by attracting as many...
Hours and hours of circling through streets of Cambridge in a sound truck yesterday, with a stentorian voice advertising the merits of "Jonah and the Whale", failed to bring the Dramatic Club a capacity audience at its premiere in the Peabody Theatre last night. But the inconsiderable number that did attend the performance seemed very appreciative...