Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential tip is as good for a rousing market rally today as it was in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge undertook to boost securities. Now, as then, stockmarketeers made the most of it. And they were greatly aided by an accompanying hail of other good news, including a pickup in steel buying, active retail trade, a big bulge in carloadings (see p. 56), re-entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted...
...mildly prosperous. Orders for machine tools, with which other machinery is made, rose from 62% of the 1922-24 average last July to 119% by the year end. Second-hand machinery, always a curse on the industry during depressions, has been disappearing. In January there was a notable pickup in the demand for used steam shovels. A bright spot in new machinery is the traveling crane trade. Higher labor costs have sent businessmen into the machine market but the rise has largely been the result of better business sentiment, heartening industrialists to the point where they will step...
...Fords were not wholly new models, but the 1933 model with improvements. Chief changes: 1) a new dual intake manifold to the carburetor to increase mileage 2½ mi. to the gallon, increase speed from 82 to 87 m.p.h., increase power 12%, improve pickup; 2) automatic thermostat that prevents warm water from the motor circulating through the radiator until the engine has warmed up, thereby improving cold weather starting; 3) windows that move not only up and down, but also slightly sideways to provide a slit for draftless ventilation; 4) a more stylish radiator grill; 5) increases...
...argument for the Bonus loan law was that the money borrowed by veterans would help stimulate a business recovery. So diffuse was the expenditure over the land that the Press has perceived little of the relief afforded needy veterans. Here and there, however, have been small suggestions of economic pickup. In Washington, veterans bought 250 automobiles with their loan cash, gave the trade one of its best March businesses. In Chicago private debts were being paid off more rapidly. Near the Soldiers & Sailors Home at Sandusky, Ohio, carousing increased...
Oakland. Facilities for shifting from high gear to second at high speeds; prompter pickup, rubber-cushioned chassis...