Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Carolina's new truck regulation annoyed oil, fruit, fertilizer and logging concerns, whose trucks, legal in neighboring States, were thus made illegal in South Carolina. U. S. truckmen are hopelessly bewildered by the multiple regulations enforced by various States. Eleven ordinary truck trailer, tractor and axle classifications vary according to the State, further complicated by rules, exceptions, footnotes. The Supreme Court decision confirmed highway developers' belief that the only solution for confusing, expensive State regulation of roads is a single, all-powerful Federal Department of Transport...
...capitalistic Times's 3,000-odd employes, Better Times is eagerly read by hundreds of chuckling readers, times employes gobble up such vilifying stories as these in the current issue: "SpeedUp and Spies Drive Ad Solicitors," "Mexican Cabinet Officer Attacks Times Stories as Deliberate Lies; Sees Paper Helping Oil Companies...
...convention. It has five-one after another, two days apiece, in Cleveland, Manhattan, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Paul. Last week, as the "traveling convention" got under way in Cleveland, 400 dealers were astonished to hear that Iron Fireman, which made $711,000 in 1937 from an uncompromising warfare on oil burners, was going into the oil burner business itself...
Meanwhile, people were putting oil burners in their basements. Oil burners, compared to the ordinary coal furnace then in use, could be run almost as cheaply, more efficiently, with considerably less fuss. Grateful coalmen reflect that without Iron Fireman their entire market might have been lost to oil. Few Iron Fireman stokers were put into new homes but they were attached to old coal furnaces for less than $500 in 1926, $275 now. They conveyed the coal mechanically from the coal bin to the furnace, and because they fed it in beneath the fire instead of dumping...
...Harry Banfield was badly hurt in the same crash, but recovered to take over. Iron Fireman has always made some kind of a profit-$484,000 is the average for the past ten years. But for two years, despite all the slighting things his salesmen have been saying about oil, Harry Banfield has been tinkering with an oil burner...