Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest, before the careening flash of last week, was the beautifully designed Miss America VI that dove in the Detroit River last September at an unofficial speed of 102 m. p. h. In 1912, relaxing from problems of speedboat design, he invented and perfected the hydraulic hoist truck which made him a millionaire and gave him the money and the time to indulge his hobby. Gar Wood now has an income of perhaps $1,000,000 a year, four homes, a fleet of cars, a 15-passenger airplane, a wife and a ten-year...
...These were, in turn, handed down in the family, sold to strangers, or new structures built in their stead. All the dwellings which were here up to last fall with the exception of the Hicks and Bridge houses, dated back some eighty or ninety years. Now as we see truck load after truck load of the precious earth rumbling off, some to the Law School, some to the site of the Dean's House at the Business School, and some to Soldiers Field, we are witnessing a great ending. The bones of the old town seen will be scattered...
...Chicago, White Hozie, Negro truck driver for the Aristo Floral Co., attempted to sell some flowers, was arrested. They had been picked by him from graves in the Bohemian National Cemetery...
Another donor, Robert Francis Gardiner, has sold his blood 73 times in nine years. Shrewd, he has assembled a gang of 300 robust Bowery down-&-outs, dock-wallopers, truck drivers and chauffeurs whose blood he sells to New York hospitals. Outdoor workers serve best...
...movement of diplomatic liquor from the Port of Baltimore to Washington's embassies and legations was badly snarled by the Five & Ten. The State Department ruled that non-diplomatic truck drivers were liable to be arrested, and advised foreign representatives to drive their own trucks. Sixty cases of fine wines and liquors consigned to the Siamese legation started the 4O-mile trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five...