Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes earlier Frank had stepped on the starter and saw flames shooting out of the ventilators. With one breath he called for a fire truck. The bucket did the trick, but the vehicles decided to come along for the ride anyhow. Then, while firemen kibitzed, the amazed student stepped on his starter again and the motor started turning over like a precision watch...
Publisher Sherman H. Bowles (cousin of ex-OPA Boss Chester), whose four Springfield, Mass., newspapers have been on strike since last fall, crashed a picket line to deliver copies of his strike-crippled Daily News, wound up in police court. Publisher Bowles had the enterprise to pilot a delivery truck himself, lacked the foresight to carry a driver's license. Fine...
...first, profits were enormous (up to 25% on some roads). But watered stock, low rates (fixed by the Government) and truck competition cut into dividends; for years the British owners have been dickering to sell out. Last week's ceremony in the Salon Blanco of the Casa Rosada (Government House), where Economic Czar Miguel Miranda and British Ambassador Sir Reginald Leeper (for the British shareholders) signed the bill of sale, finally ended the negotiations...
Sever Hall's fire alarm system aroused Yardling late-sleepers at noon yesterday, as seemingly urgent bells suddenly sounded out in competition to Mem Hall's gong. While a small know of Sunday morning strollers tingled with excitement, a Cambridge fire-truck pulled up in front of Widener, firemen leaped off, and headed toward Sever...
...moved pretty fast. Sometimes he got lifts, sharing the rear hump of a burro with a friendly peon or clinging to the bouncing tailboard of a truck. He walked a lot, too, and one by one he put the boundaries behind him-Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Six months after leaving San Jose, he was walking down the streets of San Antonio, Tex., gaping at the tall buildings, the glittering stream of automobiles. Then a cop picked...