Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coast to Coast. Last week they were winding up a deal that will nearly double their size. Chicago's federal court had approved their $1,940,000 bid for the bankrupt trucking company that Chicago's burly, brash John Keeshin had sprawled over 17 states from Boston to Washington and up through the Midwest to the Twin Cities. Overexpanded and harried by labor troubles, Jack Keeshin had pulled out of the line in 1945 (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945) just before it slumped into bankruptcy. Nursed back to health by court appointed trustees, the Keeshin Freight Lines made $484,000 before...