Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over P.I.E. as president and laid the broad plans; short, trim Gene Johnson went in as assistant general manager and carried them out. They cut costs, won new business by maintaining rigid delivery schedules, turned a profit inside a month. In 1949, P.I.E. highballed 407,000 ton miles of freight across country for an estimated gross of $14,250,000, making it one of the biggest U.S. truckers. (The biggest: Associated Transport's motor freight system, with a $25.3 million gross in 1948.) But that wasn't big enough for Humphries & Johnson...