Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roaring cold morning in Scottsboro, Ala. when a truck full of "bad niggers" snorted through the streets and slithered out on an icy road north from town. Scottsboro whites knew they were "bad niggers" because heavy steel mesh sheathed the sides of the truck and its back door was locked. "Good nigger'' convicts going out to work the roads ride in ordinary trucks, not cages...
Inside the truck, as it jolted out of town, 22 shivering blackamoors convicted of burglary, manslaughter and assorted felonies lurched and jounced on their benches. As the truck careened, a five-gallon can of gasoline and a big drum just inside the rear door gurgled, churned and occasionally slopped over. Rivulets of gasoline made crazy patterns over the pitching floor. But the cold was worse than the jouncing. Finally a big black buck named Henry pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, held a match to it, dropped it on the floor, holding out his pale palms to warm...
...years Negroes in the South have with impunity poured kerosene into their stoves to make wood fires burn brighter. The 22 "bad niggers" were not particularly alarmed when the rivulets on the truck floor took fire from the burning paper. But this was not kerosene but gasoline. A lacework of flames raced across the truck floor. Several men stamped their feet in the burning trickles. Then suddenly the five-gallon can went up in flames. Twenty-two "bad niggers" rushed to the front of the truck, began to holler...
...Joliet, Ill.'s Stateville Prison, guards opened the gates to let a truck drive out of the snow-covered yard, slammed them shut again when they spied six convicts sitting blandly on a bobsled hitched to the truck's rear axle...
...cost between 4? and 5? but make 20 trips at an average cost of about ^ a trip. The paper con- tainer costs from 1¼? to 1½?, makes only one trip. But it is much cheaper to deliver milk in paper than in glass. A 1½-ton truck (heat insulated and requiring no ice ) can deliver 2,000 quarts of milk weighing 4,000 lb. The same 2,000 quarts delivered in a non-insulated five-ton truck would include 4,000 lb. of milk, 4.000 lb. of glass, 2,500 lb. of wooden cases...