Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daylight Saving Time was back, mostly in the urban East-many rural towns and 32 whole states in the South and West still refused to have any truck with...
Police reported that at 10 o'clock an auto collided with a U. S. mail truck parked outside the Post Office Annex, and that the smash-up drove the smaller vehicle off the bridge. Biddle, a chance passer-by, quickly dove in after the disappearing...
...blast picked up a steel barge and flung it 100 yards inland. Two light planes that had been circling over the harbor plummeted down together with 300-lb. chunks of ship's steel. Then, in a splitting series of explosions (one of which flipped a fire truck on top of the beached barge), the Monsanto plant and most of the rest of the waterfront blew...
...curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough coats and mumbling hysterically: "Wohin?" ". . . weiss nicht;" "Warum?" . . . weiss nicht...
...buying agent for one of the biggest commercial truck deals in automotive history ($100 million for 53,000 trucks) is stocky, tanned Valentim Bouças (pronounced Bo-sas), International Business Machines' vice president in Brazil. He has made a fortune for himself and I.B.M. as a supersalesman and for years he has been an unofficial economic adviser to Brazilian Governments. Few businessmen have as many good contacts in Brazil...