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From hoists, Gar Wood slipped naturally into the manufacture of dump-truck bodies, then to truck and tractor appliances like cranes, ranches, road scrapers. Another Wood "industry" includes tanks for milk, fuel oil and gasoline trucks. Still another ''industry'' is air conditioning, which the Woods entered in 1930 with the first oil burner furnace designed and built as a unit. Additional space wall soon be added to the Woods' Highland Park plant to take care of its booming air-conditioning business. The Woods also make automobile accessories like heaters, and last year acquired rights...
Wolf-fed Romulus was supposed to have founded Rome 2,689 years ago by plowing a furrow round the seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
...Only then will our work be completed and new victories will be added to those which the Italians have attained." "Doo-chay! Doo-chay!" chanted the crowd as the imperial mask cracked and Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter of the engine he roared with laughter at secret service men, stumbling through the mud, breathlessly trying...
...made a point for years of groaning bitterly about the demilitarized Dardanelles at every crisis in international affairs. Meanwhile he has quietly lined the Straits with solid highways interspersed with concrete "parking spaces" behind earth embankments. Down these roads could roll at a few hours notice heavy tractor field-pieces, to unlimber at the parking spaces and command the Straits. With all this in his favor, Kamâl Atatürk last fortnight felt he could afford to wangle a remilitarized Dardanelles the legal...
WTith its Indiana line-an "assembled" product-White is the only truck company that blankets the entire price field. Indianas are priced as low as $695. Big Whites, like the 28-ton tractor-trailer lately delivered to a coal mining company for stripping operations, are virtually custom made and priced accordingly. White's production last year was about 8,000 trucks, 1,000 buses, with a total value of some...