Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade their few belongings for food...
Before the driver lets them climb aboard, he demands at least one cigaret from each of them. "What the hell," he says, "I've got to live, too, don't I?" Truck drivers prosper that...
...Vahlsing, wholesale fruit-&-vegetable jobber, testified that when he refused to sign a union contract in 1945, Papa had forced him to shut up shop. Out-of-town members of Papa's union had to pay his local an "unloading fee" of from $2.50 to $14.28 on any truck they drove into New York. One Congressman estimated that these fees added $21,600 daily to Papa's coffers...
...down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck. Truck gardens were gone. Livestock was drowned. In 40 days, at least 4,000,000 acres of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois had suffered an estimated $500 million damage-a cost only 25% below that of TVA, and slightly less than the money spent on Mississippi flood control in the last 16 years...
Some of Europe's matrons and moppets got a clearer idea last week of how they were expected to fit into the Communist scheme of things. The lesson for both: don't have any truck with international organizations connected with the West...