Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motor truck...
...with danger of fresh revolution in Spain was news that men uniformed as Government Assault Guards had atrociously murdered Royalist Leader Jose Calvo Sotelo. onetime Finance Minister to the late Dictator Primo de Rivera. Bursting into his home, they kidnapped Senor Calvo Sotelo in an Assault Guard's truck, butchered him with clubs, knives, bullets and dumped his mangled carcass in the Madrid Municipal Cemetery...
Both Gar Wood Industries and Gar Wood's expensive motorboat hobby date from 1911 when Gar Wood, then an automobile distributor in Duluth, Minn., thoughtfully observed a big truck being dumped by a hand crank. Setting to work, he invented a hydraulic hoist to dump trucks by power, founded a company to make it. His invention made him rich...
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...
...after week of drying wind and blazing sun, everyone was talking of 1934, the year of the Great Drought. In both 1930 and 1934, reported the U. S. Weather Bureau, "the situation was not nearly so critical at the end of June. . . . Pasture lands, hay, oats, spring wheat and truck crops have been hardest hit. Very little pasture is now available between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. . . . Livestock shipments are becoming heavy because there is no pasture or water...