Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark's Arab driver explained to the natives that the jeep was the offspring of the truck that followed with Clark's luggage. Yemenites, who understand heredity, understood that; they have been "electing" members of one family as their rulers since 897 A.D. The latest, Imam Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din (76), had asked Clark to come up from Aden, where he is U.S. consul, to arrange for regular diplomatic relations between the two nations...
Three British trucks, coming out of a side street into the square, ran into the demonstrators. Egyptians set fire to the trucks, tossed torches and stones onto the wooden roofs of the British barracks. Exploding ammunition in one truck momentarily drove the rioters back. At that point R.A.F. troops opened fire with rifles...
Bing Crosby was neck-&-neck with Frank Sinatra. Week after a truck full of The Voice's recordings was attacked by hijackers in The Bronx (TIME, Feb. 25), thieves in Brooklyn swiped a truckload of The Toupee's platters...
Frank Sinatra still had no cause for worry. A truck driver bound for Hoboken, N.J. had to fight off an attacking party of hijackers before he could deliver his highly prized cargo: Sinatra recordings, $30,000 worth...
...began to think in terms of shortages and higher prices to ease the shortages. The higher prices are still forestalled by ceilings-but last week some Midwestern farmers were asking and getting such bonuses for a carload of grain as six pairs of nylon stockings, a heavy-duty truck tire or a fine bird...