Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeing. It isn't quite no funny the second time to see Mr. Chaplin dive into four inches of water mistaken for a lake, or to watch him lead a Communist parade through the accident of having picked up a red flag fallen from the hind end of a truck...
...underdog last week. For eight years the gaunt Polish tailor had fought the law and P. S. C. singlehanded because, hating the huge utilities company, he had demanded that P. S. C. pay $150,000 for the privilege of stringing its wires over one corner of his tiny truck farm at Scotch Plains. Refusing a State condemnation commission's award of $800, he had served six months in jail for malicious mischief, defied an injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court...
Other administrative headaches would include the railroads' loss of passenger traffic to the motor car and the bus; the loss of short-haul freight business to the truck; the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, the Social Security Act and the Guffey Coal Act; and the Interstate Commerce Commission's reduction of passenger fares last fortnight to a 2? a mile maximum on coaches and 3? on Pullmans...
...truss Sergeant Finnegan. By that time surrounding schools had sent 25 busloads of school children to learn about sea lions, and a sea lion expert had pointed out that Sergeant Finnegan was a female. She was renamed Mrs. Finnegan or Judy O'Grady. A U. S. geodetic survey truck took Mrs. Finnegan on a triumphal ride across the State toward the Pacific, stopping at gas stations to hose and exhibit her. When she was dumped onto the beach at Nelscott, she again took an unconventional line in refusing to go into the water. After an hour and a half...
...around one city block, are entirely inadequate, as no emergency is likely to arise. His experiments, on the other hand, endanger no one, as they are carried out in the safe confines of a laboratory. A system of point rating could easily be devised, so that prospective chauffeurs and truck drivers would find it difficult to obtain positions unless they had proved themselves experienced...