Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1941 Stokes heard that Prescott Dennett, chief of the "Islands for War Debts Committee," had received a summons to appear before the District of Columbia grand jury. Stokes grabbed a taxi, scooted for Dennett's office, there watched a truck being loaded with mailbags. He followed while some of the bags were delivered to the America First Committee headquarters, others to the offices of isolationist Republican Congressman "Ham" Fish. When he phoned Fish's office and got a flat denial that any of the mailbags were there, Stokes wangled his way into Fish's locker room...
...Sergei were sent to dynamite a Nazi radio station. Fyodor dispatched a Nazi sentry with "a brief flash of his knife blade." The Germans were "perfect targets." Sergei's and Fyodor's bullets "tore into their bodies." The two Russians dashed home in a stolen Nazi truck...
Since the University does not want student furniture, it leaves many undergraduates the single alternative of sending their room fixtures to a warehouse and there are complications that make this idea far from utopian. Those leaving in a hurry will have to deal hastily with a trucking system and a storage company. The rates for this type of transaction would be prohibitively high in most cases because the student would be paying for truck and storage space that his small amount of furniture couldn't fill...
...Time. But mechanized World War II really put Art Tilt in the big time. Early in 1941 he was turning out thousands of prime movers, wreckers, armored busses and just plain trucks. Now he has enough orders to run full blast for more than a year, has specialized in three main military types: 1) Diamond T-designed six-by-sixes (six cylinders, six driving wheels) used for gun crew carriers, artillery tractors, etc.; 2) hefty half-tracks (built cooperatively with Autocar and White Motor); 3) tank hauler and recovery units, sensational monsters which handle big tanks like toys, have...
...rare honor of working in the laboratory of the great chemist Sir William Ramsay. At 22 he read a science paper before the Royal Society (title: The Critical Constants and Orthobaric Densities of Xenon). Soon after the outbreak of World War I, young Cripps was recalled from driving a truck in France, rose to be assistant superintendent of "the largest explosives factory in the British Empire...