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...statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the first public offering of trailer stock. The registrant was Covered Wagon Co., the little Mt. Clemens, Mich, concern which was founded in 1930 by Arthur Georg Sherman (TIME, June 15). Exasperate by the faults and failures of a trailer he bought, Trailerman Sherman built one fc himself, was besieged on the road by s many "trailer tappers" (curious callers that he decided to make his model commercially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nomadic Shares | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...about the same 1936 class was President Arthur Sherman of Covered Wagon Co., biggest auto trailerman of the first Auto-Trailer Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woman of the Year | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged on my trailer to investigate," says Trailerman Sherman, "that I began to see that trailer manufacture might be a profitable pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Nation of Nomads? | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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