Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleeding canker disease, which appeared in New England ten years ago and makes trees ooze from small fissures, is now being treated by injections like those given to man and animals. A small hole is bored into the trunk, a rubber hose inserted and connected with a slow-seeping bottle of organic chemicals...
...courts came next. But Uncle Dan made the fur fly, got $8,233,000 from his old friend Jesse Jones, sold a ditch of a canal to PWA for $2,000,000, persuaded Congress to pass the Chandler Act, so astutely worded that it helped no other trunk line, but let B. & 0. cut its fixed charges...
What the crowd of onlookers saw was the biggest airplane ever built-not a flying super-powered trunk lid like the late Russian Maxim Gorky, with engine piled on engine to make up for rough design, but a flying machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared...
...registered in New York, then recently moved to Miami. While packing my trunk I discovered I am not of age. That...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...