Word: truckmen
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...have to go into the bread lines?" wailed truckmen and taximen...
Last week, the rental period having expired, truckmen went to Fort Henry, loaded one of the pianos on to their truck, took it back to town, rolled it on to the platform of the C. W. Lindsay Piano Co. A few minutes later the company's bookkeeper heard sounds inside the piano that were too big for mice, too small for snapping piano wire. He investigated, found a young man wiggling out from a half-opened panel. The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police. They...
...serve four-year terms and choose one of their own number to be mayor. Mr. Hague has been chosen uninterruptedly since 1917. From 160,000 registered voters in the city, Hague workers had collected 125,731 signatures to petitions. Only 766 were required. Said smiling Boss Hague, as truckmen lugged the petitions into City Hall: "It is very gratifying. . . . I can assure the people of Jersey City that our city will continue to enjoy the reputation it has earned...
...disapproves of the "pitched battle of the classes," but declared that "labor is being babied too much here." His father's truckmen are well satisfied, he said, and have stuck to their wheels through the current dispute...
South Carolina's new truck regulation annoyed oil, fruit, fertilizer and logging concerns, whose trucks, legal in neighboring States, were thus made illegal in South Carolina. U. S. truckmen are hopelessly bewildered by the multiple regulations enforced by various States. Eleven ordinary truck trailer, tractor and axle classifications vary according to the State, further complicated by rules, exceptions, footnotes. The Supreme Court decision confirmed highway developers' belief that the only solution for confusing, expensive State regulation of roads is a single, all-powerful Federal Department of Transport...