Word: haulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young's critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...brash Joseph Coughlin, 49, 204 lb., got to be a small-talk columnist a few years before Walter Winchell. At 24, Roundy was pushing a lawnmower in Madison's Brittingham Park (he had quit school in the fifth grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal...
...Forces the utility of the Constellation is obvious: she will be the fastest, most efficient land-based freight hauler in existence, at a time when airmen direly need anything that will get a load over long distances...
...full blast for more than a year, has specialized in three main military types: 1) Diamond T-designed six-by-sixes (six cylinders, six driving wheels) used for gun crew carriers, artillery tractors, etc.; 2) hefty half-tracks (built cooperatively with Autocar and White Motor); 3) tank hauler and recovery units, sensational monsters which handle big tanks like toys, have 2½-ft.-wide fenders and an engine weighing more than an ordinary 1½-ton truck...