Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the "big four" during the first half of 1925, International Harvester led in unit sales with a round total of 9,000 vehicles, compared with 6,500 last year; Mack Truck's sales were 5,900 against 4,400 in 1924; White sold 6,200, against 5,500 last year; but Pierce Arrow sold only about 1,050 this year against 1,080 last year...
...business man is duly impressed by this carefully prepared scientific explanation of what happened four years ago. But in forming an opinion as to the future, he is more apt to watch his truck driver's neck or his stenographer's legs than the deep-revolving historical conclusions of even the most eminent statisticians...
...truck driver's neck, a stenographer's legs...
...stocks, the public know and let alone the best and the worst. But there are not apparently enough uncertain stocks with big possible future earning power to go round. In consequence, sensational advances continue in American Can, Mack Truck and similar issues. The rage for utility shares has apparently begun to subside, owing partly to Mr. Insull's warning (see below). But now railroads are beginning to be boomed...
...yard dash was credited to one Alfred ("Truck") Miller of Har- vard, a 200-lb. runner. Angry spectators near the starting line asserted that Miller, though no hurdler, had managed to jump the pistol...