Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...share of U.S. truck exports for 1947 will go to Brazil. Transport-starved Brazilians, who produce a lot of beans and rice but have a hard time getting them to market, hailed the news...
...Student Peter Klaus had spent a comfortable winter. Now, not even the peculiar terrors of spring could faze him. Opportunity had come to him one cold day last fall: as he was beating his way homeward from Berlin University, a coal truck (from the nearby Berlin-Zehlendorf coal yards) swung sharply around a corner and six briquettes fell at Klaus's feet. He hastily tucked away his precious find, glowing with the thought of hot soup and a heated room that night. Next morning he was back at the same corner with a burlap bag. For the rest...
...violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
Extra Mileage. In Monroe, Mich., an auto-equipment company made exhaustive tests, announced that during an average 300-mile trip over highways a truck driver bounces up & down a total vertical distance of 8,750 feet...