Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens of Blooming Grove and Texans for miles around turned out to honor 39-year-old Jim Sewell. He came up from Austin with his wife Janet and their two-year-old son Jimmy to give the commencement address at the Consolidated High School. Next day, a big truck trailer was pulled up in front of the First State Bank for a speakers' platform. There were speeches and telegrams predicting that he would one day be governor. Mrs. G. E. Ramsey, who taught him grammar, said: "Jim, I'm wearing red shoes and a red flower...
Home Cooking. Near Marietta, Ohio, after wondering what all the tooting and waving was about, Motorists Russell and Zora Johnson stopped their car, looked around, discovered that their house trailer had burned down to its axles...
Post Office on Wheels. Fruehauf's company "invented"' the modern trailer and has paced the trailer industry for 36 years. In 1915, Roy August Fruehauf, a Detroit blacksmith and wagonmaker, was persuaded by his eldest son, Harvey (then earning $7 a week), to build a trailer with hard rubber tires and open slat sides for hauling lumber. He didn't think much of it, but Harvey thought it had such possibilities that he plugged it in trade journals with the slogan: "A horse can haul more than he can carry. So can a motor truck." The slogan...
...eight plants around the U.S. and Canada (headquarters: Detroit), Fruehauf now produces scores of stock trailer models, including refrigerator cars, liquid tank carriers, log haulers, livestock vans. But much of its business still comes from customers who need special trailers which...
...Government has now begun to listen to the truckers' plea for materials with a more sympathetic ear, has started to funnel more scarce materials away from light trucks to heavy truck & trailer makers. (By diverting rubber from civilian tires, rubbermen increased truck-tire output last month to 360,000 from 317,000 in March...