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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Determined to make a Democratic sweep in Massachusetts, the Harvard Progressive Committee supporting the president is making nightly trips throughout greater Boston speaking at rallies in that section. Everyone who is interested in making impromptu speeches from their sound truck can take part simply by showing up at Phillips Brooks House at 7:15 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Progressive Committee Spellbinds Huge Multitude in Scollay Square from Sound Truck | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...swivel chair, ate food brought to him by a colored friend with whom he ungraciously refused to be photographed. To reporters he proudly announced that he had been fourth in line in 1933, that he would not sell his place for $50, that he was an unemployed truck driver who had been living on $60-a-month relief for three years and that, while waiting, he had been told that Mrs. Tony Albano had given birth to a son, their seventh. Said Mrs. Albano: "We're up to our necks in debt. I can't interfere with Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Yankees | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Like two other famed U. S. milers, Bonthron and Cunningham, San Romani's running career was stimulated by a serious leg injury in his childhood. When he was six, a truck crushed his leg. Doctors considered amputation. A onetime coal miner, San Romani first came to notice last year, when he won the National Collegiate mile in California. Last summer he beat Bonthron and Venzke in the A. A. U. 1500-metre championship. Now 24, a senior at Kansas State Teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Between Halves | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...France! Alors! the left banks of the Rhine like a strange phantom, in the gray light of morning walks a French soldier. With a bayonet slung determinedly over his shoulder, past a narrow bridge leading across to Germany, he walks back and for the, back and forth. A large truck rumbles cup to him stops, and two men in uniform climb out, dragging machine guns after them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...last month seven trucks rumbling out of the Holland Tunnel into Manhattan were met by policemen and confiscated, their drivers hauled off to the New York County House of Detention. Next day two obscure Brooklyn coal dealers named Nowosatka and Slutzky were arraigned in Felony Court on a charge of receiving stolen property. Fortnight ago a grand jury indicted them for dealing in coal stolen from the Pennsylvania property of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and trucked into New York. The truck drivers were named as witnesses. Last week the grand jury followed up its indictment by recommending immediate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Polluted Commerce | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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