Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activities of Nazi agents in the U.S., sent its agents to the Washington headquarters of an anti-British organization, the Islands For War Debts Committee, to seize eight bags of franked Congressional mail containing speeches by isolationist members of Congress. They found that George Hill had sent a House truck for the mail before they got there, had whisked it away to Ham Fish's storeroom...
...Transportation Coordinator Joe Eastman said there would be no truck production for civilian use after March 1. > Vending-machine makers next month will get 50% less iron and steel than last year, 75% less zinc. > Vacuum-cleaner production for the first quarter will be cut 25-40%. > Electric-light-bulb output will be cut to 1940 volume, about 20% under 1941. Purpose : to save brass and tungsten. > OPM, in a precedent-setting move, ordered all sulphite pulp producers to set aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown...
...first quarter. This means the greatest ton-mile movement in railroad history. (S.A.B. forecasts have been accurate within less than 1% of actual loadings for the past two years.) Biggest increase over 1941 will be shown by grain loadings, especially in the Northwest (see map). Truck and auto loadings (estimated for January only) will be down...
Nobody could buy a new car or truck in the U.S. last week. Nobody can until a rationing system is worked out-probably by Jan. 15. OPM barred all civilian sales. Furthermore, OPA told Detroit that its January production quota would be its last. By month's end the assembly lines will dead-stop...
...biggest single machine-tool order in U.S. history up to then: $13,000,000 for 1,415 millers. K. & T. rushed floor-space additions, hired workers right & left, started a 168-hour work week. Since then K. & T. has hummed night & day on orders from aircraft, tank, truck and gun makers. Its 1941 sales were about $36,000,000, its profits about $5,000,000, equal to $12.60 a share...