Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the burgeoning Government revenue, Grau had great plans for Cuba: 500 rural schools, a trade and agricultural institute, a badly needed public beach for Habaneros, a $100,000-a-month workers' housing program. Grau also planned an agrarian bank to encourage long-term development of truck farming and cattle raising, and new roads to bring farm products to town. His reiterated basic aim: a Cuba half industrial, half agricultural...
...learned to live like a gypsy: for four years she had followed her husband, Corporal Leland Wenger, from one camp to another. Last winter, to give her a change of scene, he decided to take her to New York for a whirl. En route, their car crashed into a truck...
Three on a Train. A Daily News truck delivered the morning papers each day to Eagle Bay. Publisher Patterson and his regal, grey-haired second wife, the former Mary King,* read them while breakfasting in bed. Daily, they caught a commuters' train to Manhattan, with a bodyguard riding the seat behind them. At the office, where Mrs. Patterson was women's editor and fiction buyer, her husband paid morning calls on the Sunday room, city room, picture department...
...Breech began work for General Motors' subsidiary, Yellow Truck, as comptroller, moved up fast. In 1933, he became board chairman of North American Aviation, eventually landed in a G.M. vice presidential chair. In 1942, G.M.'s brown-haired boy was elected president of Bendix, controlled by G.M. By taking tough radar and radio contracts that other companies did not want, he pushed Bendix's annual gross up from $40,000,000 to nearly $1 billion. He still found time to play golf, fly his own plane, and pitch hay on his ten-acre farm near Detroit. With...
...plain men everywhere knew it. Unless the standard of life in Europe rose, European civilization would not be possible. Anyone who doubted that could look at Europe's diet statistics, or, better, at such typically present-day European scenes as took place daily in Italy. As U.S. Army trucks carry garbage to dumps, Italians on bicycles fall in behind. When a truck stops, they swarm over it, snatching its scraps...