Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bawled out the truck driver was Roy A. (for August) Fruehauf, 42, president of the Fruehauf Trailer Co. As head of the company which puts more trailers (i.e., freight vans pulled behind trucks or "truck-tractors") on the road than any other trailer-maker, he has a public-relations job to perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume...
...rubber drum for shipping petroleum, acid and other liquids. Flexible and light (28 lbs., v. 40 to 60 lbs. for the same size steel drum), the drums, when empty, can be shipped back cheaply to the supplier. More than 2,500 folded drums can be shipped in a freight car that can hold only 300 steel containers of the same size...
...Post had come to the same conclusion as many a Republican, Democratic and independent newspaper in the U.S. But it had gotten there by a slow-freight route that was uniquely...
Northwest says it hasn't lost faith in the 202s, is selling half of them simply because it needs more four-motored planes for freight and long hauls. As for the remaining ten 202s, Northwest President Croil Hunter has his mechanics modifying them to meet CAA's recommendations. When the 202s are ready, he expects to have them in the air again...
Police arrived just in time to save the students from being sealed in the box-car, which was scheduled to be picked up by a cross-country freight train...