Word: autotruck
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Though the Justice Department glared at the 54.7% of the autotruck market captured by G.M. (it already has seven antitrust suits pending against G.M.) and the United Auto Workers chided the corporation for not lowering car prices, G.M.'s management took its history making in stride, devoted as professional managers to the dictum once voiced by another great manager, General Electric's Philip Reed: "Profits are a measure of effective, efficient operation and should be worn as a badge of accomplishment and of honor...
Although A-to-Baggage, as the editors point out, is composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed...
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