Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peak and made 1935 the second biggest truck year in U. S. history. The trend to lighter trucks, however, has reduced dollar volume, which was more than 30% below 1929. Government spending boosted sales, but the prime cause for the truck makers' burst of speed was the spark plug of general business recovery...
...first catalog in 1898 listed a $450 "package carrier fitted with special gear, capacity 700 Ib. including driver." For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven. It pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers...
...horse, a veteran of the French turf. To keep him going all these years his trainers had doped him consistently, more & more. His system had become slowly tolerant and partially immune to huge hypodermic shots of dope which would have killed another horse. When the old plug gave out at last he was bought by an unsuspecting butcher with the usual gold horse's head over his door and the usual polite euphemism on his sign "BOUCHERIE HIPPOPHAGIQUE...
...wiles of her no-good husband. As butler and first man, Lee Tracy and Roscoe Kearns are uproariously ridiculous puzzling over a text on the duties of a butler, setting a table, and insulting guests. To preserve the honor and wealth of the household, Kearns takes on a strong plug-ugly backed by the nefarious husband, and finally manages to clout him into a somnabulistic state when the other fighter was not looking. Except for occasional lapses, "Two Fisted" is uniformly funny, with crackling dialogue, and good slapstick. Should one like an impossible, ridiculous bit of fluff, this...
...decided it was a pleasant way to live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times...