Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WITH steel output up 40% in the first seven months of 1953, Great Lakes ore boats are hauling the greatest tonnages since the Mesabi Range opened 61 years ago. U.S. Steel's 64-boat fleet, which racked up its first 4,000,000-ton month in August, is headed for a full-year haul of 29 million tons, 3,000,000 more than in 1951, the peak year...
When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...
...another to tax trucks on their weight and distance traveled, and thus made the highway tax load more equitable. The result is a hodgepodge of conflicting state legislation, which causes truckers to complain-legitimately-that the burden does not fall equally on local and transcontinental lines, and that long haul trucks are often unfairly penalized. But the trucking industry, a burly, brawling youngster which owes much of its growth to World War II, has not helped its case by its frequent contempt for present laws, fair or not. In Georgia, where trucks are limited to a weight...
AIRLINES may soon be carrying up to 85% of all first-class mail, if Post Office experiments later this summer pan out. It is still cheaper to send mail by rail than by air (36? v. 52¾? an air ton-mile), but with a big volume to haul on late night flights the airlines may be able to cut their rates enough to underbid the railroads, which are asking a 45% increase for carrying mail...
...learned to make his own living at an age when most kids are learning long division. In 1930, when he was 26, Pytsch and an accomplice held up a small Manhattan hotel, but were caught by the cops before they even had a chance to spend their $7 haul. After four years in Sing Sing, Pytsch was paroled, went to California to begin again. While he was working there as a coal miner, he seduced a 13-year-old girl. The girl told her father, and Pytsch was tried and found guilty of statutory rape. The judge gave...