Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Documents were brought into court by the truckload. But the most staggering evidence the Government produced was its formula to prove that Corporation Securities' stock was worthless, when in 1931, after announcing a net income of $8,000,000 for the preceding year, it continued to pay dividends because "the defendants were at all times keeping up representations to the public that the company was sound and the stock a good buy." Burden of proof lay in two algebraic equations which the court found chalked on a blackboard one morning. The equations...
...take long to find some of them. Police chased the athletic coach of Madrid University around the campus and finally cornered him and a truckload of cartridges, flame projectors and machine-gun belts. Other caches were found almost everywhere the police looked...
...funeral chapel at Lankwitz's Park Cemetery in Berlin went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...
...police pounced on the sublieutenant, then began picking plotters out of the army like raisins out of a cake. They soon had 120 army officers and civilians ranging from General Schmidt of the poison gas department, a handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere...
...whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each, "We are just leaving Marblehead, Massachusetts, with a truckload of fresh haddock, which we guarantee to have in Chicago in ten hours, by plane, train, and truck relays. Our prices are only a few cents over the Chicago market price. May we offer, etc....". By the next morning they had driven to Chicago, and sold all their fish, paid...