Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Graham Bros., large independent truck manufacturers...
...acquisition of the new truck subsidiary makes Dodge Bros., Inc., the third largest producer of motor cars in the U. S., ranking only after the Fords and General Motors. The production of the Graham concern for the first six months of 1925 amounted to 11,000 trucks- equal to its entire 1924 output. Ever since 1921 Graham Bros, have enjoyed an arrangement with Dodge whereby they used Dodge engines as standard equipment and marketed trucks exclusively through Dodge dealers. As a result, the task of integrating the truck concern into the Dodge organization has already been largely accomplished...
...Daily News was first. In its pages appeared the photograph of a man who had just been struck by a truck. He was shown lying on his back on the pavement, a disheveled white-faced form, under the caption SPEEDY WORK BY CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact, the "speedy work" was not so notable as it might have seemed, for the accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example...
...thinking of buying a truck and he reads that advertisement listing the hundreds of concerns using from ten to two thousand White trucks, he certainly cannot help reaching the conviction that there must be something behind the White truck. It spells service...
Automobile taxes bring in a revenue of 125 millions-35 millions on trucks and 90 millions on pleasure cars. The truck tax might be abolished, but the other retained to compensate the Government for its expenditure on roads...