Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare back and say, "Oh, no, they're not, we're charging two cents more today." He drives off in a huff and I sit down on my case of eggs and charge and charge and charge, but nothing happens. The same system applies to livestock. We truck it to the city and are informed that the "market" is so much today. We can charge all we like but we get paid whatever the market happens to be. Charge...
Sleepy Eye. Near Sleepy Eye, Minn., Truck Driver Louis Melzer was recovering nicely from multiple arm-and-leg fractures, after being knocked out in a collision, laid out on the highway by a good Samaritan, run over by a passerby, backed over by the same...
Short-Order Duck. Such are U.S. scientists' short-order wonders, often telescoping into a few months developments which would normally take five years of research from idea to finished product. Perhaps the best example of how Dr. Bush's group works was its famed amphibian truck, the "Duck." The problem: to produce a 2½-ton truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck...
OSRD experts make frequent scientific trips to war areas to examine the value of their weapons in action. Once models are approved, Army and Navy experts take over and production contracts are let out. Ford, for example, has been turning out OSRD amphibian jeeps, while the Yellow Truck Division of General Motors produces the two-and-a-half ton amphibian truck...
...found ballet people "clean and magnificent-looking, intelligent and self-absorbed," was surprised at the complete absence of the jealousy usual among theatrical people. She was fascinated by the way the airy dancers would bounce off the stage after a successful performance-"panting like truck drivers." At such exciting moments Painter Davis often had her chair snatched from under her while she sketched...