Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that juncture Snedaker's troubles multiplied. The anti-cholera regulations had ruined standard bus, train and plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
Cambridge firemen, arriving on a book-and-ladder truck and a fire engine, showed little appreciation of their undue summons and remarked to questioning Yardlings that they were merely on a practice run. "Five Yard policemen were present to preserve the remaining modicum of order among north-entry residents...
...thorough investigation," the AVC cited Frank Boland, hotel manager, for breach of contract, Mayor Lynch of Cambridge for terming Boland's action "rugged Americanism," the Amvets, who threatened to picket the dinner 400 strong if it were held, and former Cambridge councilman Christopher Carolina for allowing his campaign sound truck to protest the gathering "without adequate investigation of the circumstances...
...over them carefully, while a vibration meter-connected with a microphone inside the case-reported each tremor of the mirror. But the driver needed no admonition. Like everyone else in the cavalcade, he knew that man's latest bright hope of understanding the universe was riding behind his truck...
...same ambition was reflected in Crosley's other two new models: a two-door, four-passenger station wagon ($929, f.o.b.); a ¼-ton-capacity panel delivery truck ($8.99 f.o.b.). Crosley considers himself in competition with the used car market. Said he: "I should like to make clear that our ambitions . . . are comparatively unpretentious...