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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burglar Alarm. In The Bronx, thieves hijacked Otto Meucci's truck in the night, drove it only a few minutes, quickly abandoned it when its horn short-circuited, arousing the neighborhood with its deafening blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...cafeteria, taking advantage of what Hansbury terms "cheaper meals and better quality than can be obtained anywhere else." The menu includes a special hot plate at 40 cents, soup, sandwiches, milk, and ice cream or pie, all of which is prepared at Adams House and then taken by truck to the cafeteria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Now Serving Lunch for Commuters | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

...Pasadena, Wright Cougar ran his car into a truck, was asked by a cop how good his brakes were, said "I'll show you," headed for the truck, crashed into it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark wore a court plaster on his forehead. Returning from a fox hunt, he had driven his car into a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Bridges had sent his organizers from San Francisco to Hawaii to sweep in recruits for his maritime union. It was virgin territory. Bridges' men also took in pineapple-plantation workers and a smattering of railroad workers, cannery workers, truck drivers. But their busiest field was the sugar plantations. They signed up plantation hands by the thousands in a heterogeneous organization that soon began to look like John L. Lewis' District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paradise Reprieved | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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