Word: deibel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsstand conveniently near you. Recently, we asked one of our Midwest correspondents to interview one of them-a St. Louis truck driver-to give us a closer look at one of the many people who handle newsstand copies of TIME in transit. He was 48-year-old John Deibel, a senior highway pilot for the Consolidated Forwarding Co. If your copy of TIME this week came from a newsstand in the St. Louis area, it was hauled from Chicago by Deibel...
...Wednesday afternoon, Deibel jockeyed his shiny orange tractor #684 against the big trailer at Consolidated's Chicago transfer garage. He motioned toward the trailer loaded with 2,350 copies of TIME...
Explained Deibel: "When I come in they say, 'Get going, Johnny, you got the magazines.' That means, 'Keep pushing it along, Johnny, and don't stop to beat your gums on the road...
There is good reason for the professional pride which shows through Deibel's curt shop talk. He wears a red C.F.C. badge above his visor for his twelve-year safety record. He's proud too (but wears no badge for it) of his regular, five-year-long assignment to haul TIME. TIME's schedules are known to be so tough that 48 trucking companies from coast to coast use their TIME contracts to get other fast-delivery business...