Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost before this warning could sink in five truckloads of men dressed as soldiers, Heimwehren ("Home Guards") and police rumbled up to the Ballhaus. So closely did these invaders resemble lawful forces of the State that the Ballhaus' sentries had not even challenged them. Jumping down from a truck, their leader, dressed as a high Austrian Army officer with medals blazing on his chest, barked orders to close and bolt the great oak doors of the Ballhaus. Even this seemed regular enough to the sentries but an instant later they quailed as pistols were pressed to their ribs with...
...union recognition and killed two special policemen before they compromised with employers struck again last week, 6,000 strong. This time their demands were for higher pay and the right to have their union speak for "inside workers'' as well as the actual drivers of trucks. Pay might have been compromised but the question of representing inside workers was a sticking point. After two days peaceful picketing during which only milk, ice, beer, bread and fuel were delivered, wholesale merchants demanded police convoys to resume food deliveries. A picket truck blocked the path of a produce truck convoyed...
Little by little the paralysis crept up the surrounding valleys. In the San Joaquin Valley, 400 workers quit their vineyards. In the Salinas Valley, truck garden for San Francisco, produce was moved east and south, seeking other markets. Throughout the entire area roads were crowded with hundreds, perhaps thousands of refugees from the afflicted zone, mostly women and children being sent to the country where food could be had. By mid-afternoon of the first day it was estimated that 100,000 people had left town in 24 hours. A typical refugee was a steamship executive who moved his family...
...race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell...
...rate increase would bring in $300,000,000 annually. But the railway executives well knew as they rolled home in Pullman drawing rooms last week, that to add 10% to the freight charges on lightweight commodities for short hauls would only drive even more business into the hands of truck and steamship competitors. Consequently they were planning a graduated increase, not permitting rates of any one commodity to he upped more than...