Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killers roared away, still without a new car, they began quarreling bitterly. Daniels, suddenly fearful, railed against West's wild stupidity. But West was still snarling with braggadocio a few minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
Johnny West pushed the truck driver into the bushes, shot him in the head and chest, climbed behind the truck's wheel. Daniels got into one of the new canvas-draped cars in the rear. They rolled on unchallenged through one of Ohio's greatest man hunts...
...given full credit for their magnificent behavior throughout the crisis, but actually the Colonel himself and his team of 10 officers and 17 men served as the main rallying point for the crushed and stunned natives. (One of Hyland's staff, a young officer who drove an army truck up a blazing driveway where Mydans was shooting pictures, leaped out, tossed some cans of gasoline in the truck and backed out furiously, shouting at Mydans, "looks like you found a story." He turned out to be former TIME circulation department worker Mike Sednaoui...
...same question at them which had been asked last year of a group of Hollywood writers and producers. The question: "Are you or have you ever been a Communist?" The unionists were from the C.I.O.'s Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which takes in everyone from truck loaders to notions-counter clerks in the country's department stores. The union, with some 150,000 members, is split by a right wing-left wing fight...
...content with 23 publications (and three comic books besides), Ford is planning another (Ford Truck Times) with a starting circulation of 2,000,000. Hollywood is getting into the act with one called Close-Up. But Selznick Studio, its publisher, sees no reason to give away what it can sell. In several hundred movie houses and at newsstands, fans last week were forking over a quarter for a copy of Close-Up filled with little more than publicity puffs for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Before his death (TIME, May 10), radio's Tom (Breakfast in Hollywood) Breneman...