Word: truck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hood Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonnet Running boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Platform steps Fenders . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mudguards or wings Windshield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Windscreen Headlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .Headlamp Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dynamo Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accumulator or battery Gasket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Washer Truck . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Lorry Instrument board. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Facia board Transmission. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gearbox Emergency brake. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hand brake Choke . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .Strangler Sedan. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Saloon Propeller shaft . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . Cardan shaft Countershaft. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Layshaft Crank. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .Starting handle Connecting rod bearing. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .Big end Gasoline. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petrol Duco (as general term). . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . Cellulose Gear shift . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change speed lever Spark plug . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sparking plug Oil pan. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sump
...aristocracy in general rallied to plebeian tasks, as in Wartime. The Duchess of Westminster, onetime actress, drove a truck from which she sold newspapers. The Viscountess Massareene piloted a vegetable lorry. The Duchess of Sutherland, Baroness Rollo, et al, similarly busied themselves...
...White Truck Roll Call. Annually the White Co. of Cleveland publishes its "Roll Call" of White truck owners, a veritable roster of the greatest U. S. industrial concerns. This year the roll runs so long-961 fleets including 35,755 trucks-that only the owners of ten or more machines can be listed. About as many owners again remain anonymous, owning only nine or less trucks. The Gulf Refining Co. has the largest White fleet-1929; the Associated Bell Telephone Co. next-1420; the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. third-1032. This year, as the roll call presented last...
Vastly more solid is the International Harvester Co., which makes practically every tool the farmer may need: beet pullers manure spreaders cane mills motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield...
When there is John Lucia who has twenty children, according, to the last census, one gray horse, one Ford truck, a sense of humor, and, naturally, a wife. And though John can manage the horse, the truck, and even the sense of humor --Jennie goes her own way. Last fall she wanted to drive a car since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none...