Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary were needed to keep the Ukraine in order. Moreover, the Ukrainian peasant was not enthusiastic about feeding the Germans at the front. For the 1918 harvest they tried to trick the Germans by planting just enough for their own needs. Only 42,000 truck loads of grain were exported from the Ukraine during the entire period of German-Austrian occupation...
...recently illuminated of all Near Eastern art traditions is that of Iran (Persia), whose present Shah welcomes celebration of his country's bygone glories. Chief illuminator is a tall, ruddy gentleman with thin grey hair who lives and labors alternately in a Park Avenue apartment and in a truck on the craggy passes of Iran. Mr. Arthur Upham Pope is director of the ten-year-old American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology...
...Michigan imprisoned Alexander Ripan for life. The reason: a bullet which killed his farmer neighbor fitted the barrel of Ripan's gun. In 1929, Prisoner Ripan drove a truck out of the Jackson Prison gates, disappeared. In 1935, Michigan found him again, a well-behaved cobbler in East Chicago, Ind. Back to Jackson Prison he was haled...
Today the Heil Co. employs 1,800 people, makes oil burners, oil and milk tanks for trucks, hydraulic hoists, dump-truck bodies, water systems, road scrapers, snow plows "and everything." Ruddy, energetic, thick-accented Julius Heil is a millionaire, a life-member Elk, also a Moose, Shriner and patriarch of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, where he meets his wife and friends every Saturday evening for a Familienfest. He can boast that in all his business years his workers have never struck, and that during Depression he spent $600,000 of his company's reserves to keep them...
First of all, that very sentence I praised above, namely "I'd like to show those (censored) truce-breaking truck strikers," lacks an object of any sort: show them what, Freddy? If you mean your new coat, or that cup you won at Camp Oolaloo in the rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support...