Word: motortruck
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...farm-equipment maker's net fell from $63 million in 1951 to $55 million in 1955 while other U.S. corporations were setting earnings records. New President Moulder is an old hand at Harvester; he joined the sales division in 1910, became first chief of the company's motortruck division in 1944, moved up to an executive vice-presidency in 1946, a directorship in 1948. He is married and has two children...
Because trailer-making is a very specialized industry with different problems for each type of goods to be hauled, Fruehauf earned a ride behind the cab of the zooming motortruck industry, became the Fisher of highway hauling. Building some 30 standardized types from two to 50 tons (priced from about $600 to $3,000), Fruehauf has set the industry's technological pace, makes 40% of all U. S. commercial trailers today...
...tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...minimum motortruck freight rates for the New England and Central States. To stop destructive rate wars in the industry, ICC established a new "floor," averaging 1½% higher in New England and 3½% higher in the Central district than rates now in effect...
...What motortruck makers are famed for an annual roll call...
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