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...such influences as may affect its trend in the future." GM in 1936 sold 2,037,690 automobiles and trucks, exceeding by 7% the previous all- time high mark of 1,899,267 (1929). For these cars last year and for many another GM product, including Frigidaires, Diesel engines & locomotives, Delco heating, lighting and radio units, GM received $1,439,290,000, a 25% gain in net sales over 1935. Net profits for 1936 were $238,482,000, compared with $167,227,000 in the previous year...
Rest of the way is over the trackless sands. Lightness was therefore a prime consideration. E. G. Budd Co. followed the formula that has made it the most successful U. S. builder of lightweight streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been...
...boom talk grown by last week that newspaper statisticians were already compiling lists of industries which will set all-time production records in 1936-a job usually reserved for the annual year-end review editions. Such Depression-reared industries as plastics, airconditioning, Diesel engines, cellulose products are sure to make new marks...
...Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost of $10,500,000. For joint service between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Chicago & North Western ordered two 17-car, streamlined. Diesel-electric lightweight trains from Pullman and General Motor's Electro-Motive Corp...
Most interesting exhibits to the layman browsing about the Truck Show: a huge, streamlined, refrigerated milk truck with a little propeller inside the tank to keep the milk slowly circulating so it will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were...