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...stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2), he was leading out his first caravan in a test run from Chicago to Los Angeles in five days, Los Angeles to Manhattan in eight...
West from Hardin, Mont, one day last week rolled a remarkable caravan bound on an extraordinary journey. Thundering in line went three huge trucks with trailers, a fleet of small trucks and passenger automobiles. The trucks carried six $6,800 tractors, four giant plows, four seeding outfits, a mass of trip hammers, lathes, forges, tools. They were bound through snowy valleys and over icy mountains for California's warm, rich San Joaquin Valley and the newest venture of Tom Campbell, world's No. 1 Big Farmer...
...idle. Why not, he asked himself, scatter crops in other climates, harvest the year round by sending his machines and men after the sun? Matching his equipment, experience and Government credit rating with outside money, Tom Campbell leased 14,000 fertile, irrigated acres in San Joaquin Valley. When his caravan arrives this week, he plans to begin planting 3,000 acres to flax, harvest it in May, then send his machines back with the sun to Montana...
From there the outfit went to Glen Island, the Essex House, and the Camel Caravan in the ether. Success has been meteoric since then...
...dear experience. His business experiences taught him the power of gold and clever dealings. Seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines gave him ample opportunity to speak authoritatively on that subject. His reorganization of the internal administration of his kingdom; his wise utilization of the control of the caravan routes that led from Egypt and Arabia to Phoenicia and Syria; his great commercial undertakings as middleman and carrier; his zeal for monoplies; and all in all with his faith in the Lord laid the foundations of his vast national wealth and showed his people and the world that indeed here...