Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual construction during the past year has been notable, though all of the major projects were under way in the preceding year. Structure such as the west side highway in New York City, the outer drive in Chicago and the super-highways of Detroit indicate that the major city trunk lines of the future will be non-stop express ways probably of elevated construction. There can be little doubt that the economic savings will warrant the development. They offer the most important single step in the urban traffic horizon...
...known of Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause, she was nervous, tense...
...Roofer McHugh has at various times boarded lions, camels, zebras, elephants, kangaroos, snakes, bears, horses, dogs. He charges by the space they occupy. Room for small animals costs 50¢ per day. Elephants take up three times as much space as their total area because keepers must allow for trunk-swinging. An elephant's quarters cost from...
Thus had White House pressure and the cry of Hard Times broken the decade-long deadlock on eastern mergers. For the last ten years these same rail executives had been fighting a stockmarket battle for possession of subsidiary roads as part of their trunk systems, had been snatching at all independent trackage in the country's rail territory to keep it out of their rival's hands. So bitter and reckless had become their operations that the Interstate Commerce Commission had cried out in loud protest while the Senate had passed a resolution to suspend temporarily all mergers...
...This agreement should put an end, once and for all, to the financial intrigue which for so many years clouded trunk line affairs. Even since 1920, legitimately ambitious railroads and even designing financiers have tied up the situation by crisscross investment much to the public confusion and disadvantage. But now there will be no future sparring for position. There will be no need for corporate or private speculation...