Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists. Most of the touring businessmen had heard of modern oil prospecting by "artificial"' earthquakes and other geophysical methods. At Harmarville they saw how it was done. A charge of dynamite in the ground was detonated. The earth tremors were recorded on a seismograph mounted on a truck some distance away. From the shock record the speed of the tremors was deduced, and from that the geological character of the ground. Also on view were gravity instruments so sensitive that they detect the moon's tidal pull on the earth. With such equipment, said Research Director Paul Darwin...
...been in virtual retirement for ten years when, in 1934, an intracompany row brought him back to active leadership. During the first half of 1935, Reo made $42,156 but even this tiny profit was welcome after five consecutive years of deficits. Of late Reo has become primarily a truck maker, in 1934 turning out only 3,854 passenger cars as against 5.035 trucks. Government purchases of trucks have supplied a very substantial portion of Reo's business but passenger-car sales thus far in 1935 have barely passed last year's total. Willys-Overland, in receivership since...
...road if Ethiopia promised to transport no munitions on it. Haile Selassie appeared to leap at this idea. Since the League lifted its arms embargo against Ethiopia, guns and ammunition have been coming into the black empire, not by way of the railroad from Djibouti but by motor truck to Harar, 125 miles from the British Somaliland border...
Great decade for the implement maker began in 1920. In that year there were 25,748,000 horses and mules on U. S. farms, which developed 20,970,000 h.p. and supplied 56% of total farm power. At the same time U. S. farmers had 139,000 trucks and 245,000 tractors, developing 7,700,000 h.p. By 1930 the horses and mules had dropped to 19,050,000, competing with 900,000 trucks and 920,000 tractors. The horse horsepower had fallen to 17,171,000 (24%) whereas the truck & tractor horsepower had risen...
...farmers' gross income rose to $6,000,000,000 and to $7.300,000.000 in 1934. This year it should be in the neighborhood of $8,000,000,000. So the tractor again comes lumbering over the farm horizon. There are no current figures on the truck and tractor population, but horses have dropped to 16,600,000. Sales of farm implements have risen even more sharply than the rise in farm income. From a 1932 low of some $150,000,000 they have more than doubled, until domestic sales for the present year are estimated...