Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanks. Tom Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. last week prepared to make armor plate for tanks. Marmon-Herrington Co., truck & tractor maker, is doubling the capacity of its Indianapolis plant, had an order to build light combat tanks for the U. S. Army...
Germans in Brazil own textile factories, dye works, paint & chemical plants, machine and tractor factories. They run retail establishments, hotels and restaurants up & down the country. The German-owned airline, Syndicato Condor, operates down the Brazilian coast to Buenos Aires, across the Andes to Santiago. It also runs a profitless branch line to Xapury, 2,000 miles up into the Amazonian wilderness. Germany tried to underwrite a huge Brazilian steel industry, but was outmaneuvered by Washington, which last week was waiting for approval from Rio of a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan...
...something else again. Taking highway users in the mass, Coordinator Eastman's report concluded that in four years (1933-37) they had paid in State and local gasoline and license taxes $276,961,000 more than their fair share of the cost of the roads. Items (in 1932): Tractor-trailers (more than five tons) paid $832 in taxes, should have paid only $545 of road costs. School busses paid only $77, should have paid $5 more. Passenger cars paid $26, hit their responsibility on the nose. Underlying these estimates was a basic assumption: that since all roads have "general...
...Tractor-trailers do almost 100% of all U. S. inter-city highway hauling today. A few months ago the Fruehauf brothers got the job of national distributor for the stainless steel trailers of Budd Manufacturing Co., gave an initial order for 10,000 stainless steel semitrailer body sets. On the market and doing nicely is Fruehauf's new light-weight Aerovan (of aluminum alloy) which, carrying a ten-ton payload, weighs three-quarters of a ton less than Fruehauf's equivalent steel model of last year. One growing reason for reducing trailer weights: many a local highway regulation...
Last summer Chicago's mammoth International Harvester Co., No. i U. S. farm implement manufacturer, belatedly entered the booming small-implement market with a new, light tractor selling at $515, or $225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines (which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405-cheapest in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened up the small-combine field five years...