Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not keep up with the demand. She began to trace her designs on cloth, carry the marked cloth and a hank of yarn around to neighboring farm wives who would do the "tufting" for so much per spread. Every few days she would set out in a mule cart to run the circuit of her tufters...
Into the Detroit smithy of Wagon-maker August Charles Fruehauf (rhymes with blew-off) one day in 1915 walked a lumber dealer. To the blacksmith he posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...
...also attributable to the smart, smooth-working executive combination of President Harvey Charles Fruehauf, 46, and his vice-president brothers: Harry Richard, 43, in charge of manufacturing, and Roy August, 31, director of sales-sons of August who made the two-wheel cart...
...explanation, and the subsequent reduction, was inaugurated in 1934 and 1935. By the time the bilingual teachers get around to it, the Navajo stock will be reduced to the vanishing point. They think it's far too near that point already. Doesn't your article put the cart before the horse...
...Damodar River, within shouting distance of the Gandhi camp, Suhhas Bose harangued 5,000 of his followers. He damned Gandhi's dilatory tactics, pointed out how Mussolini sprang into action in 1922, demanded similar sudden decisions in the India of 1940. Then he mounted a farmer's cart drawn by two white bullocks, and as his followers carried banners (including the hammer-&-sickle), he rode in loud triumph right through the Gandhi camp. For the moment, the race was to Bose by a nose...