Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Government clinched its title to the land by establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
...their way to chapel at Amherst College, where both are juniors, Henry Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and Charles Whitman Jr., son of New York's onetime Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, were shaken up but escaped injury when a truck bashed into the side of Undergraduate Hughes's automobile...
Special Bulletin (May 26): A new crisis developed late this afternoon in connection with the pump diggings, when a multi-ton truck came blundering along the road and caused the entire excavation to cave...
...Chicago, Keeshin set about filing joint tariff schedules with six railroads as the result of an alliance agreed upon fortnight ago for truck-rail freight service, such as Keeshin started with the Rock Island line in 1934. About June 8, the railroads will begin picking up loaded Keeshin trailers on flat cars, carrying them by rail to their destination, where Keeshin tractors will make final delivery. The six: Baltimore & Ohio; Reading; Central of New Jersey; Alton; Rock Island; Chicago Great Western...
...Chicago, the new All American Motor Freight Lines, recently capitalized at $1,000,000, asked the I. C. C. for permission to buy seven truck lines for $96,000, announced it will soon apply for permission to buy five more for $400,000. All American plans to confine itself to the Midwest for the time being...