Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truck farmers-and canners-are going to have to break all production records in 1942. Besides feeding itself, the U.S. will have to keep Britain's pantry stocked, and Russia's. The Department of Agriculture gave a rough idea of the gigantic job ahead, by calling for an average 25% increase over 1941. Department heads said that next year's requirements would be at least...
Single vehicles rush past. A lost truck stops and asks a wounded man where a certain regiment's headquarters have gone. :'Can't say," comes a Tommy's reply, "I'm a stranger 'ere myself...
Five formations of Japanese planes roared from northern Indo-China to Kun ming on the Burma Road, bombed supply-depots and machine-gunned truck convoys in the first air attack on the Road since last spring...
Last week, the rental period having expired, truckmen went to Fort Henry, loaded one of the pianos on to their truck, took it back to town, rolled it on to the platform of the C. W. Lindsay Piano Co. A few minutes later the company's bookkeeper heard sounds inside the piano that were too big for mice, too small for snapping piano wire. He investigated, found a young man wiggling out from a half-opened panel. The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police. They...
...random one-day auditor's survey showed a $1,300 labor charge for work on 300 light vehicles. Examples: repairing one tire, 4½ hours; pouring five quarts of oil into a truck, one hour; repairing one carburetor, 12 hours...