Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy" practiced by China's Communists in the strategic northwest, vacated by the Japanese more than a year ago, has seemingly ended in a political mistake rivaling their military failure. This is a conclusion hard to escape after a strenuous plane, truck and rail tour of the Chahar Shansi-Suiyuan border region...
Soviet newspapers carrying the Zhdanov speech featured a cartoon captioned Crew of Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...
...being produced at little or no profit would probably go up. Alloy steel (10% of the steel output), on which controls had already been removed with no price effect, would probably stay put or even decline. ¶ General Motors was the first to raise prices. It boosted car and truck prices an even $100 all around. Ford said he would hold the line. Chrysler Corp., which has started to make money, said nothing. ¶ Housing costs would soar over ceiling prices all down the line. But black markets and many bottlenecks would be ended and prices of some items...
...Among current strikes, it is the nation's third longest. The strike at J. I. Case Co.'s plant in nearby Racine is four months older; that of Mack Truck Manufacturing Corp. workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is three days older...
Fruit of Toil. In Emporia, Kans., a city official got an emergency garbage collection call, dispatched three men in a one and a half ton truck, wound up with an apple core...