Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon gases which are then yalved into the motor in the ordinary way. An 80% reduction in fuel cost for light trucks was claimed. The truck could carry fagots enough for a 60-mile run without stopping; could refuel with anything driftwood, barrel staves, roots, cigar boxes...
Hundreds of square miles it covered, the broad upper valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...
...Stearns-Knight cars. In 1915 Mr. Willys, who learned the merits of the motor from gossip during a transatlantic trip, bought the rights for the light car field. No U. S. passenger cars but the Stearns-Knight and Willys-Knight may yet use this motor, although the Federal Truck has it and, strangely, the Yellow Cab, which is now owned by General Motors, great maker and marketer of poppet-valve motor cars...
...answer probably lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that we didn't after all want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...
Alfonso, Prince of the Austurias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain: "The motor car in which I was riding with my tutor near San Sebastian last week collided with a motor truck and I escaped injury as by a miracle. My health has been reported 'indifferent' for so long that I am suspected of suffering from some permanent disorder and there is talk of offering the succession to someone else. If I am passed over it is expected that a similar fate will overtake my father's second son, Prince Jaime, for he is almost...