Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First involved were the thousands pouring through the massive Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
Stocky Eugene Gauthier, 45, and his wife Winnifred worked late Friday evening loading their new Mercury one-ton truck. At 5:30 next morning, they were off to Ottawa's By Ward Market. In a jiffy the Gauthiers were setting up shop (they pay $35 a year for a stall, plus 10? for each day they actually use it). Gene backed up to the curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby...
...with sales dropping, Gene began to shave prices. Corn dropped a nickel. Finally, at 8 p.m., his truck was empty. Dead tired, he and Winnifred set out for home. It had been a good day and there was more than $100 in the pocket of Gene's heavy black pants...
...hour and a half, not one of the 1,696 trapshooters bettered his score of 99. Then a Pennsylvania truck farmer hit 96 birds in a row, missed the 97th, shattered the next three to tie Jimmy. Under a 97° sun, Farmer John W. Schenk and young Rasmussen met in a 25-target shoot-off, with Jimmy firing from 19 yards, his opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize...
...Though the company's basic patent ran out in 1943, Lane-Wells's 150 mobile truck units still handle more than half of all the well-perforating business in the U.S., and provide many another service on the side. The latest, which Lane-Wells performs under license from the patent-owning Welex Jet Services, is to free oil by means of a bazooka-like gun that fires jets of high-speed, fast-burning gases...