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...Covered Wagon Co. has a history typical of the industry. Founder and president is bland, ruddy-chopped Arthur George Sherman, 46, son of a manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged...
...handful of real factories manufacturing them in volume on assembly lines. All are working at top speed, unable to meet the demand. Since 1933 demand for trailers has at least trebled every year. Last year there were some 250,000 on U. S. highways. Last week Covered Wagon Co. of Mt. Clemens, Mich., largest manufacturer in the business, doubled the size of its paint shop to keep pace with a production schedule up 600% over last year. Covered Wagon is still unable to fill more than one out of five orders. According to the most conservative trailer men, there will...
...nose to discover a lobby, which brought into the full bloom of its founders' dreams, should make the United States Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion look like clusters of babbling high-school girls asking for an afternoon in the country. Harvard's contribution to the American band-wagon of pressure groups has the straightforward, no-fooling name of "Council of Government Concentrators," and boasts that it is the only organization of its kind in captivity...
Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...
...Preston, president of the League, asked why 1935 earnings failed by 50? per share to cover the $1.60 dividend. President Milburn said most of the difference was due to produce losses (30? per share), the farmers' milk strike in Illinois (10? to 15?) and a strike of milk wagon drivers in Milwaukee (remainder...