Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formed a line in the path of the crowd, but the Jews marched right through it. Two mounted police squads bore down on the demonstrators, who fought back with stones, bricks and clubs. Shots cracked; three Jews fell, wounded by bullets. Enraged, the D.P.s overturned and burned a police truck, injured 26 policemen with bricks. Two companies of U.S. military police arrived. With a Jewish Army chaplain, they persuaded the demonstrators to disperse...
...convert's home in the mountain village of Melcamaya, Baptist Missionary Norman Dabbs was holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
Although the Reds yip that Coca-Cola has landed an "army of workers," shiploads of machinery and trucks, Coca-Cola has only ten Americans on its Italian staff (Italian employees run into the thousands). The company uses Italian equipment in making the drink (as in the U.S., Coca-Cola restricts itself to the sale of syrup, leaving the more profitable bottling operation to local businessmen), employs Italian printers for advertising and uses Italian trucks for distribution. Isotta Fraschini has just produced a truck which the company thinks is better-looking than the American design, and which it plans to export...
Profits & Pensions. Because stale stock ruined many a candymaker, Schnering sidestepped jobbers outside metropolitan centers, and developed a system whereby hundreds of truck-driving salesmen supplied Curtiss dealers. He spurred sales with profit & pension plans, and his 7,000 employees have never shown much interest in unionism...
Death of a Stoic. Recently, the army came across more & more mines near the village. There were many casualties. Last week, an army truck was blown up by a mine just outside Klidi. The wounded driver saw one of Dimitrios' men, Basilis Stoikos, lurking in the bushes and arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore...