Word: truck
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...Ohio Highway Patrol weighing station checked 6,700 trucks (not 4,000), and 203 (not 356) were in violation of the so-called legal load limit. This constitutes a 3% violation (not 9%) . . .Of the 3% accused of violations, almost all were for uncontrollable axle weights, and not for gross overweight . . . The great majority of Ohio's truck operators are opposed to all violations of the state's highway laws, regardless of their inequity...
Wages. Frozen temporarily as of Jan. 25 for everyone-corporation presidents, movie stars, baseball players, as well as factory workers, truck drivers, day laborers...
...poor coal miner, Graves was born (1896) in Warrensburg Mo., left school to work in the mines at ten, switched to sheepherding, put in a stint in the Wyoming oilfields. But Graves was never satisfied to work for someone else. He saved enough money to buy a truck, parlayed it into a fleet of seven and sold out for $60,000. With the cash he bought a sheep ranch of his own-and was wiped out when a blizzard killed his herd...
Tactical Vehicles (e.g., trucks, jeeps, etc.): Reo Motors, Inc., $65.2 million; Studebaker Corp., $76.6 million; Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., $95.5 million; Diamond T Motor Car Co., $52.5 million; International Harvester Co., $139 million; Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., $188 million; Truck & Coach Division of General Motors, $144 million...
Choice. In Passaic, N.J., thieves drove off with a meat-packing company truck, abandoned the truck, but kept its $2,000 cargo of hams...