Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington the biggest factor in the fastest-growing U. S. industry last week filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the first public offering of trailer stock. The registrant was Covered Wagon Co., the little Mt. Clemens, Mich, concern which was founded in 1930 by Arthur Georg Sherman (TIME, June 15). Exasperate by the faults and failures of a trailer he bought, Trailerman Sherman built one fc himself, was besieged on the road by s many "trailer tappers" (curious callers that he decided to make his model commercially...
...about the same 1936 class was President Arthur Sherman of Covered Wagon Co., biggest auto trailerman of the first Auto-Trailer Year...
With the announcement that the '39 and '40 football schedule will include the University of Pennsylvania comes the realization that Harvard has in all earnestness climbed onto the Ivy League band-wagon. Every college named in this newest eastern league will meet Harvard teams during the next four years, with the single exception of Columbia. Not only by lip service but by the best example of all -- actual playing agreements, does Harvard signify her intention to do all in her power to further amateur football and non-professionalism in the college field...
...Resettlement Administration, with its high costs (administrative overhead 13? on the dollar) and record of questionable success, faced difficulty in getting new appropriations from Congress. In parts of the South many a no-good farmer who has been "rehabilitated" now drives along the road with his new mule, new wagon, new harness grinning down at the "leading citizen" of the community sweating in his lower 40 to pay the interest on his mortgage, with an old mule, spliced harness and last year's ploughlines. All this Dr. Tugwell classifies as prejudice and dismisses, but Congressmen at home among their...
...traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days and the travelers were in constant danger of Indian attacks. Cunninghame Graham taught fencing in Mexico City, returned to the cattle business in South America, learned when his father died in 1884 that debts...