Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOWLING school lad and burly truck drives alike there exists a common fear, that of the dentist drill rasping through dentine in seeming horrible search for the nerve. No lean scholar is Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of Columbia's dental school, yet from his laboratory he has come forth with a discovery that entailed twenty years of research. As a consequence, the dental bogey man, pain, is now gone, and dentists everywhere are polishing tools for emergence out of the depression. Dr. Hartman has developed a chemical which, applied to the tooth, almost instantly kills its entire capacity for feeling...
Major suggestions made by Mr. Andrews are the establishment of a great rice market in Bangkok, the reconstruction of the port to accomodate large ships, the building of inland highways for truck transportation, and the expansion of cooperative societies to assist farmers in producing and marketing their crops and to assist in credit arrangements...
...left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl (niece of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), brought her to the U. S. After eight unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went off to live in a shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago sales manager. No sooner had he made a resounding success than he chucked the job, went...
...reason for these outcries was largely geological. Florida gets its rain in summer, but it grows its money crops, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, avocados, celery, spinach, other truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir...
...wells close to the canal. Florida's state geologist declared that he could not see why the effects would be limited to areas close to the canal. In places the fresh water had in late years already shown signs of failing and salt water was taking its place. Truck farmers and fruit growers rose in alarm. They formed the Central & South Florida Water Conservation Committee with headquarters at Sanford. They published large advertisements, "What Will You Do Without Water?" They wrote to the President, were answered by a White House clerk. They wrote to the War Department, were answered...