Word: truckman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crimes invented during the British drought included, "Washing an automobile with drinking water," for which offense a London truckman was fined ?i. When driving rainstorms finally burst over Southern England and Northern France, the atmosphere was so surcharged with heat that the rain fell warm and muggy...
...completion of the merger of Dodge Bros., Inc., with the Chrysler Corp. (TIME, June 11), largest consolidation in automobile history. Memorable in the history of Wall Street, Grand Canyon of the G. O. P., was the unfurling, last week, of the first Democratic campaign banner "in 44 years. Truckman James J. Reardon, Al Smith musketeer, inspired the display. The Lower Wall Street Business Men's Organization* sponsored it. Memorable for employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test...
...citizens of Highland are divided in their attitude toward the new industry. Fishermen, chandlers, shipbuilders, and truckman of the town look upon the bootleg trade as a gift from heaven, but the more respectable residents resent the presence of flashily dressed, hard-faced strangers who frequent the restaurants and put through their liquor deals under the very noses of the local police...