Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shofner, 43, only steelwoman on the West Coast, has had little time for ordinary partygoing. Married in 1919, she took over her husband's railroad brake-shoe foundry at Linnton, Ore. when he died four years later. Mrs. Shofner did not like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...
Fastest growing business in sleepy, elm-shaded Flemington, N.J. (pop. 2,700) is that of holding annual stockholders' meetings. Last week business was brisk. In one day, stockholders of the New York Air Brake Co., American Crystal Sugar Co. and McHutchinson & Co. (garden bulbs) plumped down in chairs in the law office of sedate, greying George Knowles Large, droned through the meetings, caught the first train back to New York, virtuously felt the 50-mile trip well worth the thousands of dollars in taxes they had thus saved their companies...
...hand brake. It's perfectly useless-won't hold at all. And ... I wish they could somehow fix the jeep so that at certain speeds the singing of those heavy tires wouldn't sound like an approaching airplane...
...emergency brake was pulled last week on one of the most profitable, fastest-growing of U.S. wartime markets - used trucks. OPA put a ceiling over used-truck prices as of April 26, scaled maximum prices from 68% of the new price (six-year-old trucks) to 97% of the new price (trucklets six months young or less...
...demand for good used trucks has been whopping. Prices soared 150-200% above normal; speculators bought trucks right & left, cached them away for even higher prices; fleet operators wrung their hands as speculators wrung their pocketbooks. Even after OPA's order, some trucksters wondered how long the brake would hold. Special rules already permit extra charges for such parts as oversize axles, tires, special brakes, etc. Thus, while a truck may be pegged at $675, the extra heater may cost $500-or no sale...