Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining the bill's size, he commented: "It is a long view plan for the future. It will require many years to complete. . . . [I propose] that we should approach the problem on sound engineering lines, completing the main trunk systems and gradually extending the work outward. . . . The bill does not call for any increase in the budget this year...
...Digging a 9-ft. channel up the Mississippi River (prime "main trunk system") from the mouth of the Illinois to Minneapolis & St. Paul; reaching a 6-ft. channel into the wheat country as far as Sioux City, Iowa, along the Mississippi's tributary, the Missouri...
...Evanston, Ill., Walter E. Bushman, a small man, appeared at the police station, asked several policemen to come home with him and persuade his 230-lb. wife to get off the top of his trunk so he could open and pack it, leave...
...Grateful, 75% of Ulen employees accepted the offer, made Lebanon the Ulen capital. But not midwestern are Ulen & Co. activities: Ulen engineers today are work ing upon three dams in Chile, a $23,000,000 land-reclamation project in northern Greece, the construction of Persia's only trunk-line railroad, and the operation of Brazilian public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city...
Month ago Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. asked the President for permission to replace the White House telephones on twelve trunk lines with dial instruments. Fond though he is of mechanical efficiency, the President declined to work his finger instead of his voice...