Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-eight needy Cambridge families enjoyed a small edition of the Marshall Plan when PBH completed deliveries of Thanksgiving dinners to them yesterday. The families, selected by the Cambridge Social Service Center; received the packages, prepared by a freshman committee, from a University maintenance truck, which contained their orders for the holiday meal...
Despite her tremendous drawing power (she once broke attendance records in Boston during a blizzard that stopped traffic and closed the schools), some of Broadway's top producers and directors swear they will never again have any truck with her. (Says one: "The woman is constitutionally unable to fit harmoniously into a group effort.") Mostly, these people are merely unwilling to follow the one tested formula for getting along with Tallulah: give in to her. The formula seems to work for Producer John C. Wilson; he also put on her last show, Jean Cocteau's The Eagle...
...Memphis, Charles Sanders Jr. landed in a hospital, learned that he had been hit by a truck while trying to prove to friends that he "could walk home blindfolded...
...London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...thrashing out ways & means of increasing British industrial efficiency. Labor's own Daily Mirror berated the dockers' action as "a strike against prosperity, a refusal to go forward with modern methods." Actually, in this case the employers were much at fault. When they put the stacking truck in, they violated a 1929 law forbidding employers to install labor-saving machines without consulting the workers first...