Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take long. Frank had three eggs, half a dozen strips of home-cured bacon, four pieces of toast heavy with butter and jam, two cups of coffee. It was close to 7 o'clock when the four clattered off to the fields in the battered 1934 Dodge light truck...
Private Elevator. Slowly (5 m.p.h.) the Andersons went round & round the 80-acre field, cutting the golden stalks to beige stubble. Once an hour they stopped and Harold Robb came alongside with the truck. Into it spilled about 70 bushels of grain from each machine. Harold Robb drove the truck back to the barn. There Frank Anderson had built a private elevator (capacity 12,000 bushels), with cemented interior and motored conveyor...
...Tightrope. Headlines in Paris papers had trumpeted: "Tomorrow the world is going to blow up," and Scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie had warned that Crossroads might well start a fatal chain reaction. On the appointed Day of Wrath, a load of wooden wine caskets broke loose from a truck in Casablanca, French Morocco, and hollowly thundered on the cobbled street. That touched off riots: thousands of Arabs were sure that the Angel Israfil was summoning them to their doomsday tightrope, whence (so said the Prophet) the damned would fall into hell...
...this point the Major tried to telephone Minister of Security Radkiewicz in Warsaw. While we waited for the call, I sat in the office for half an hour and heard the Major, the Chief sitting at his elbow, deal with his routine work. Bandits had held up a truck in one place, political oppositionists were becoming very active in another. Some of the conversations went on in Russian, some in Polish. I was getting very tired and hungry and quite irritated when Warsaw called. The Major listened for a moment, then said O.K. and hung up. "What did they...
Cellists who are used to the old jokes about struggling into subways with their bulky instruments will find the electro-cello no better. It weighs 50 lbs. and requires enough amplifying equipment to load a small truck...