Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...altitude of about 75 yards directly over the heads of the audience and landed across the road at Hickam Field. For another performance, the cast had to travel part way by jeep, by motor launch across Pearl Harbor, then a jaunt by miniature railroad, and finally by army trucks. Once arrived . . . we gave the show on a stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy of army trucks and have a blanket night pass for the whole troupe. Several weeks ago, returning from Wheeler Field, the truck in which...
...Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
...picture fails to clear up one of the oldest and most exasperating Hollywood enigmas: why car and truck drivers do not remove the ignition keys from their machines so they can't be stolen as easily as they are in Warner Bros, pictures...
...Institute's Sicé found new public enemies to fight. He planned a successful uprising against the Vichyites entrenched in Middle Congo. When the Governor General refused to go along with the Free French, General Sicé and aides wrapped him in a blanket, threw him in a truck, dumped him over the border into the Belgian Congo...
Before entering politics via the soapbox, this bombastic orator was a teamster, storekeeper, baker, and truck-owner, shuttling between Boston and Cambridge for a living. Today he still has his small trucking business, but it isn't this that keeps him on the go. "It's the politics," as Mike calls it. "It sort of gets in your blood, and you can't get it out." During one election, the word went around that if Mickey showed up at a certain rally he'd be tossed out the window by his enemies. Mickey showed up. He wasn't going...