Word: motor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News that motor trucks can now be made to run on kindling wood instead of gasoline reached Joseph Stalin some time ago, fired the Dictator's keen brain. The system was pioneered in Italy and last year Benito Mussolini ordered all busses in the Kingdom converted to burn wood...
...rich Russia- should go in for wood-burning motor trucks Moscow observers easily explained. The mighty Soviet oil fields do not of course spout gasoline; Russian cracking plants have given trouble; the gasoline has to be shipped thousands of miles; but almost everywhere in Russia wood is abundant...
...transformed into gas in an ungainly looking "generator" as the bus lumbers along. This gas drives a conventional gasoline engine on which the liquid carburetor has been replaced by a gas carburetor. Last week Dictator Stalin approved orders to build in Russia within two years 56,000 wood-burning motor trucks...
...main event, the 250-target all-gauge shoot, a comparative oldster of 28, Henry Bourne Joy Jr.. turned in an extraordinary performance-a perfect score of 250, something that had never been done before. Skeeter Joy, son of the late Henry B. Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co. and famed skeet pioneer in the Midwest, lost his right eye in a shooting accident five years ago. now shoots left-handed-and better than ever...
...price war, this was merely revision in line with more efficient production and distribution. In May, FORTUNE estimated that for a $15 Schick Shaver, the motor costs $1 or less; the head, about 50?; case, cord and indirect labor, another $1.25; overhead, advertising and sales, perhaps another $2.50. Total costs then amount to about $5, leaving a neat $10 net for dealer and manufacturer. That Schick, first in the field, should lead in price-cutting was no surprise; that Packard, which has always been out to beard Schick, should cut further was no surprise either. Big surprise was that General...