Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruddy, polite little man of 47, whose body is tattooed from clavicle to toe with black cats, snakes and strawberries. He is official executioner for the State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair...
...shrewdest diplomatic moves in India was made last week by a Yankee truck driver...
Standing in front of his army truck, the soldier saw a crowd of belligerent Indian nationalists approaching. "We want to burn your truck," said they. "Sure," said he, taking a box of matches out of his pocket. "Take these and burn her up. I guess we did more than that for our revolution...
...Mack Truck's big tank-part plant at Allentown, Pa. was fortuitously near an abandoned airport. So when tank production was cut back the Allentown plant made an ideal spot for Navy torpedo bomber production by Vultee Aircraft. Cost of the changeover (including fixing up the airport): $6,000,000 v. the $15,000,000 it would have cost to start fresh...
...proposal is acceptible to students of the College some sort of central depot might be established at Cambridge where stocks might be accumulated. Transportation to Boston would be undertaken by the USO. It was also possible that some system might be established whereby the USO would provide a truck which would pick up furniture at students rooms at a given date...