Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy end of the truck market, composed mainly of the construction and trucking firms, is also growing. The big three automakers produced 60% of the heavy trucks sold last year; the rest were turned out by International Harvester, White Motor Corp., Mack Trucks, Diamond Reo and other companies. The 7% investment tax credit has helped spur demand. So has the decline of train service, and the fact that 25,000 communities in the U.S. have no means of delivery service other than trucks. Industry leaders expect total sales to increase 50% by 1980 to $10 billion, a growth rate that...
...Jacobs is heading out through the woods on his motor bouncing over stumps as fast as he can go. SGA President. Top stump jumper...
...operated on last November. "I've been nearsighted most of my life," said Tony Award Winner Duncan. "My father says I can see more than I can understand anyway. What would affect me more-being in the business that I'm in-would have been if the motor area had been damaged. You see, the appearance of the eye is more important, actually, than the vision." She plans to resume her weekly TV series Funny Face in May or June...
...Industrialist Ferdinando Innocenti had an idea that put a nation on wheels. He made a stubby, inexpensive motor scooter: something more than a bike but less than a motorcycle. He called it the Lambretta, and Italians, too poor to buy autos, rapidly embraced it as their family vehicle. Premier Alcide de Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini...
Students driving out of state vehicles should be aware of regulations issued by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. These bear mainly on sufficient insurance coverage for the vehicle. Unless the registrant answers yes on the registration form to three specific questions on insurance coverage, thereby guranteeing sufficient coverage, the Harvard Police will not issue him the blue registration sticker provided by the Registry. A find of fifty dollars accrues to any student falsifying the registration form. A fine of $100 accrues to an educational institution failing to comply with state regulations on this topic. James T. Sullivan Parking Commissioner