Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Daniel Hertz of Chicago, who stirred up a new demand for motor cars by permitting people who rented his machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...
...businessmen and shady politicians in the late years of the last century, but he has allowed his selective faculty to droop. There is divagation, fumbling with incidents and words. Force penetrates these defects; in spite of them the story progresses, with power but without smoothness, like an ore truck with one square wheel...
...final collection of books for the Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library will take place tomorrow afternoon. The collection will be from 2 o'clock until 4 o'clock. During these hours a truck will go from dormitory to dormitory to gather the books, and each collector is asked to put any books which he may have collected outside his door in case he himself will not be in at the time...
...mind yerself, Pansy! Don't 'ave no truck wit sailors...
...peasant of Kent and four times a mother. The father of these four children, a truck gardener, died some years ago and left her their sole support. She, previously a vigorous and goodlooking young woman, has become the victim of a disease known as acromegaly. This cruel and deforming malady not only completely transforms the outward appearance of those whom it afflicts but is attended with great suffering and often with loss of vision...