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Word: trucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, in a field, not far from Los Angeles, Calif., they were harvesting barley. Then came hordes of men bearing tons of wood, truck loads of nails, 9,000 barrels of oil, 2,000,000 gallons of water, The wood and nails they made into a grandstand (capacity 17,000) into an exposition building, ultra modern, larger than a city block. The oil and water they sprinkled on the field so that whirling hundreds of propellers would not raise a dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: At Mines Field | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...murder of Daniel O'Leary, one of four ganging brothers, seemed to be a retaliatory measure from Duffy headquarters. But the hearing of testimony germane to the murders gave way before the information of a stream of truck drivers, brewery bosses, alcohol dealers and other nondescript employees of what began to loom with increasing clarity as a monster liquor ring in the Philadelphia underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Distributing Corp. (commodities delivered by barge and truck; money by armored car) : $286,769 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profits & Losses | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck driver to work for the Republican party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tycoons | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

They backed a truck up against Clara Bow's dressing apartment at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. It took a long while to load the truck; and then they drove it away to a storage warehouse. The idea: to get rid of 250,000 letters from cinema-bugs, which had been cluttering Miss Bow's apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bug Clutter | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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