Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--The royal oculist was summoned to examine Queen Mary today after disclosure that she had suffered a "painful injury to one eye," the left one, when a truck loaded with affraid stream smashed into and overturned her automobile yesterday...
...Washington last week toward the New York World's Fair (thence to New England) rolled a roadshow long promised to stamp collectors by Jim Farley: a three-ton truck fitted up as a philatelic museum, displaying 535 varieties, representing every U. S. stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated...
...headquarters at her apartment on Chicago's South Side. Bales of letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some 300 of her followers, who mostly are on Relief (as is she), arrived in Washington by truck and car, so fagged that they could hardly drag themselves up the Capitol steps to hear their friend from Mississippi...
...demonstration, which is open to the public, will include battery drill, truck driving, equitation, pistol practice, survey, harnessing, and communications...
Cold-eyed, aggressive Max Gilman joined Packard in 1918 as a truck salesman, was sales manager and vice president of Packard's New York company when he was brought to Detroit in 1932 to serve as Mr. Macauley's right hand in Packard's successful invasion of the medium-price field. Motorman Gilman once crusaded against the bad manners of Manhattan taxi drivers by cruising about the streets in an old touring car and forcing offenders into elevated-railway pillars. His big accomplishment to date: raising the pressure of Packard's gentlemanly dealer organization-which last...