Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began to refer to their telephone chats as "blitz calls...
...Near Henderson, Colo., a truck driver named Margorito Gomez ran into a pole that carried a 13,000-volt power line. Within seconds, five nearby farm houses caught fire, the local telephone exchange was knocked out, a bull was electrocuted, and all the electric water pumps in the area stopped pumping. At home, Gomez explained: "I'm subject to fainting spells...
...election for the Majlis (Parliament) to ratify the Russian oil concession he had just signed in Moscow. The Russians were then posed menacingly in Azerbaijan. In December 1946, when the Russians abandoned the Azerbaijani Democrats, the election finally "started" with much fanfare. Distribution of registration forms began-by plane, truck and camel back. A TIME correspondent asked Gavam when it would be completed. Fingering his jade conversation beads,* Gavam chuckled, said: "Perhaps in two or three months, Inshallah [if Allah wills...
...that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York, he promptly ordered workmen to dump it off its trailer truck (see cut). It is now resting in a field near Yarmouth, awaiting a decision from Secretary General Trygve...
...cost 2? a pound to fly freight to Wailuku on the island of Maui, 126 miles away. Dodds hopped over to Wailuku and made a deal with Manager Joe Gehring of the Snow White Laundry to handle all the laundry Dodds could fly over. Then Dodds bought a used truck, rounded up all of Hilo's dirty laundry and had it flown to Wailuku...