Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manufacturers of automobile and truck tires are conducting a special deflation of their own. Even the United States Rubber Co. has announced an 11% reduction in pneumatics, and a 10% cut in solid rubber truck tires. Practically all the principal American tire companies have now lowered their prices in the same proportion...
Ambassador Harvey: " I arrived in Washington from London to be the two weeks' guest of the President and Mrs. Harding. The White House truck had to make two trips from the station to bring our 20 trunks...
...where such a course was justifiable at all, expressed a preference for Federal over State or local jurisdiction. The Chamber urged that a transportation system in the United States, commensurate with the country's needs, be developed by the coordination and expansion of railroad lines, waterways and motor truck routes. The virtue of the Chamber's resolutions lay in their eminently sound common sense, their weakness in their vague and inclusive nature. The result was much more sincere than a political party platform, but in some respects hardly more concrete...
Railways. The topic of transportation was especially dwelt upon during the convention. Several discussions can perhaps be set down as essentially propaganda of the legitimate sort; a gentleman from Missouri, for example, urged the improvement of our inland waterways, while a motor manufacturer stressed the importance of the motor truck, and a railroad president stated the grievances and trials of the railways. Nevertheless, a deep impression was made when a policy of fair play for the railroads was successively urged by a farmer (0. E. Bradfute, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation), a labor union representative (W. N. Doak...
...similar way the rates on cement are based upon Gary, Ind. If a farmer in a middle western center goes to a factory to buy a load of cement, he is charged the freight rate from Gary even if he hauls it back in his own truck...