Word: truckful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Heeding pleas of motorists that something be done about nails and sharp metal scraps on the highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate, covers 42 miles per day. By last week it had accumulated more than a half ton of tire-damaging litter, including a pair of scissors...
...show was that of the Wheeler Shipyard's 56-ft. Playmate. Lost in the fog for four hours during its water passage from the Wheeler Yards in Brooklyn to its docks in Manhattan, the Playmate was finally hoisted out of the water onto a 30-ton truck. The job took 40 minutes, cost $1,200. Last year, after measuring an elevated railway crossing and deciding it was just big enough for one of its boats to get under, Wheeler Co. was disappointed to find that a two-inch snow fall had made it impassable. Last week, the Playmate encountered...
...victim, also an lowan, was Atlantic Northern, with 17 miles of track. Only farmer-owned railroad in the country, it was built in 1907, thrifty Danes of Elk Horn and Kimballton, Iowa putting up $350,000. Then came the truck which hauled cattle for less money, convinced farmers that even a farm-owned road was not worth keeping. Atlantic Northern had no bonds. Its property was appraised at $117,000. Its farmer-directorate will sell to anyone for 15% of that...
...removed from the political whirlgig that had red-headed Governor Chandler cruising the streets for votes in a sound truck with a red-combed rooster on the radiator, is Professor Lloyd Arnold of the University of Illinois, in a state neighbor to Kentucky. With a colleague, Dr. J. A. Vauchulis, in the division of bacteriology, department of health, Dr. Arnold has perfected a new skin disinfectant for surgical use. The new solution is much cheaper than any disinfectant known today and more efficient than any other. Eminent in medicine, Dr. Arnold received his M.A. at Texas Christian...
...turn up a face of monstrous grief, one eye closed, the other alert and blue (see cut). Last week Berlin Zoogoers attributed Roland's death to a heart broken by loneliness. Berlin doctors, however, set about knifing through a hide as thick as a truck tire for some more realistic reason for his demise...