Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact sort of way, Walter P. Chrysler offered the public a new automobile called the Plymouth. On the thirtieth day of that month, Dodge Bros, stockholders approved a $160,000,000 deal which turned over their business to the Chrysler Corp. The Dodge company included Graham Bros., big truck concern...
Estimated average value of a 1928 car was wholesale $650, retail $876; of a 1928 truck wholesale $709, retail $955. The difference between wholesale and retail prices paid for freight, storage, interest, dealer's profit...
Yesterday afternoon a large truck carrying a machine that looked like a submarine drove up Longwood Avenue to the Harvard Medical School. After considerable maneuvering, the truck backed into the grounds of the School of Public Health and slid its load down an incline into a specially constructed building...
...Heavy machines in large cases constituted most of the cargo of the Vestris. Included were: 650 cases automobiles, 600 shipped by General Motors Co. to Montevideo: 240 cases automobile accessories; 68 cases typewriters: 86 cases cash registers: 31 cases truck chasses: 58 cases tractor parts; 66 tractors: and in varying amounts, railroad materials, furnaces, gas engines, steel office furniture, motorcycles, divers hardware. There was considerable mail, including diplomatic correspondence with U. S. consular agents...
...dazzling blue eyes could see, was the People?on roofs and on streets. It took an hour for the Smith automobile to travel 20 blocks. For safety the motor had to be shut off; the People pushed the car. An old man in a robe stood on a truck at Scollay Square; he held aloft a sign saying: "Diogenes looking for Hoover Prosperity." The air was full of a thousand Smiths and not a few O'Briens; they were on pages of torn-up telephone books. It was getting dark. The Smith mounted a bandstand on Boston Common. Noise. Ambulances...