Word: deibel
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...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...
...Chicago, Deibel's first stop was at Chenoa, Ill. at Steve's Cafe. "Best steaks on Route 66," he claims, with the truck driver's air of finality about such matters. There he had time for his meal, no time for trivial talk. A short distance behind him rolled another Consolidated truck, with a "straight load"-goods without such a demanding time schedule. If #684 were to break down, they would switch trailers and the other driver would haul TIME to St. Louis. It hasn't happened...
While Driver Deibel was on the road, 127 other trucks were hauling other newsstand copies of the U.S. Edition. More than half, however, of the total newsstand supply were delivered by Railway Express, frequently using crack passenger trains. Meanwhile, a few thousand newsstand copies were being flown to posts in Canada and Alaska and pilots were flying copies of the Latin American, Atlantic or Pacific Editions to six continents and over five seas to all the far-flung places where TIME is read...