Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Long has not suffered from a lack of friends in Washington. A turn has come in his affairs and he is too busy for social contacts. From the first the President, whom he helped nominate, definitely would have no truck with him. The Administration, in fact, lined up against him, gave him no patronage, indicted his friends for income tax evasion. He began, according to his custom, a campaign of retaliation, singling out Postmaster General Farley as the Administration's Achilles heel. Democratic leaders thought they had to reply and in no time public interest filled the Senate...
Though Pope Pius XI owns a helicopter, Vatican City is too small (109 acres) and crowded to permit the landing of other aircraft. Last week a truck brought into his little realm its first airplane. The Holy Father promptly walked out to peer at it through his thick spectacles, observe on its side the name of his predecessor: SANCTUS PETRUS. The plane, as Pius XI was gratefully aware, was the gift of a recently-formed German organization, the Missions Verkehrs Arbeit Gemeinschaft ("Mission Traffic Aid Society"). Founded by a onetime army aviator named Rev. Paul Schulte who now belongs...
...equal pay for equal work" (as differentiated from wage scales based on merit or length of service), the disagreement originated in Uneeda's Philadelphia plant last January with the workers also charging breach of contract. President Calvin's 3,000 Manhattan workers struck sympathetically, followed by truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery, intimidation and general foul play...
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...Eldon, Mo., Charles Caldwell started the engine of his dump truck while it was in the basement garage of his house. He had forgotten to take the hoisting apparatus out of gear. The rising hopper lifted the house six inches off its foundations before Mrs. Caldwell stopped...