Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasionally there is a crash, and bits of dishes and lamp chimneys lie, Humpty-Dumpty like, on the stage floor. Last week the final fragments of one unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company; the sale having been dictated by the I. C. C. With them went the last vestige of the Fifth Trunk...
...showing how a muscle-bound baggage smasher carved his way in the world. To Smasher Victor McLaglen's girl, "promotion" meant a white collar; to Smasher McLaglen it meant a job he liked. Told to pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose to superintend the Lost & Found Department. Saving the Queen of Lisonia's jewels from train robbers, he was told again to pick his job. He became a fireman. Best shot of this smart film- Strong Boy and the lost child...
...from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
...White House hurried Captain Einar Paul Lundborg, of the Swedish Royal Flying Corps, rescuer of General Umberto Nobile in the Arctic, to pay his respects to President Hoover. He wore a brand new uniform. Three Washington tailors had made it for him in three hours when his trunk failed to follow him promptly from Manhattan...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. suggested a merger that would more than double its mileage and valuation. The Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. offered a plan that would link the somewhat scattered Van Sweringen holdings into a unified and expanded trunk system...