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...posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...
...over 1938-39); at snooty Palm Beach and plebeian West Palm Beach (up 20%); at Fort Lauderdale, "fastest growing city in the fastest growing county in Florida," (up 20%); at Daytona Beach, Key West, St. Augustine, Tampa (up 20%). And by uncounted thousands they were diffused in trailer camps, autocamps, hamlets, roadside inns. By April 1, when the winter season wanes and the smaller summer crop begins to bud. the calculators figure that upwards of 3,000,000 will have come and departed, left $365,000,000 in Florida pockets...
...long yellow oak table that is Edward G. Budd's desk last week came a $9,000,000 order from Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Detroit. This order for 10,000 stainless steel unassembled semitrailer bodies meant that at 69 courtly Edward Budd was crossing a new frontier in the Detroit automotive field, where for years he has sold bodies and wheels to Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and various others. That the No. 1 trailer manufacturer was going in for stainless steel in such a big way was good New Year's news for 27-year-old Edward...
...aide and a batman, another member of Britain's ruling family last week toured the British front: H. R. H. Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Major General (formerly Field Marshal) the Duke of Windsor, 45. He traveled (and slept) in a caravan consisting of a trailer towed by a small coupe. Unlike his brother and successor on the throne, who was kept well back and whose trail he did not cross, he visited the foremost zones. His mission: to inquire into and report on the men's morale, quality of food and quarters, supply...
...would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big, money-making Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Colonel Wedgwood has nevertheless recently howled about Britain's "ferocious income tax." As retrenchment he plans to move out of his sumptuous home and live in a trailer at Barlas-ton, near his constituency...