Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully...
After a 600-mile ride by truck from Warsaw to the southeasternmost corner of what was Poland and after surviving a German bombing raid there; after traveling by specially chartered Rumanian train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa, and after evading a German order for internment there; after aimlessly riding the eastern Mediterranean in a Turkish boat for a week; after a brief stop in Syria; after traveling to France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value...
...groups. Then the General, his aide and two sergeants threw away their uniforms, put on the oldest clothes they could find and started out to meet the advancing Soviet Army. The Soviet patrols merely looked upon them as humble peasants. Once they hopped a ride in a Soviet Army truck, but mostly they walked. After 13 days of sleeping by day in the woods and walking by night, they reached the Carpathian Mountains, slipped through Soviet border patrols and into Rumania...
France, inquiring for 20,000 trucks, placed a $3,500,000 order for 2,000 with Yellow Truck & Coach. Studebaker landed another French truck order, White Motor Co. another. Goodrich had orders for 645,000 feet of A. R. P. fire hose from Britain, Hewitt Rubber for 1,300,000 feet...
...making Chrysler bodies. Having just refilled its till with about $300,000 of new private money and $450,000 of RFC money, Hayes proposes to pay back this arm of the Government by selling to another arm-the War and Navy Departments. Its new lines: aircraft parts, ordnance, armored truck bodies. To help win a place on Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson's clubby suppliers' list, Hayes Body went last week and got a new president, veteran Munitions Salesman John W. Young...