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...year-old franchise to haul passengers and baggage between the city's eight painfully scattered railroad stations. Last spring the railroads, considering Parmelee inefficient and overpriced, threw open bidding on a new five-year contract. Successful low bidder was Railroad Transfer Service, Inc., headed by tempestuous John Keeshin, trucking magnate and longtime, if unlikely, friend of quiet Hugh Cross...
...which polices U.S. railroads, had no jurisdiction over the intracity deal. But a Senate investigations subcommittee, meeting in executive session, heard allegations that Chairman Cross went out of his way to present himself to the railroads as a character witness on behalf of Bidder Keeshin. Also discussed was an alleged job offer by Keeshin to Cross, who admitted that he helped Keeshin but flatly denied that his motive was anything more than friendship...
Coast to Coast. Last week they were winding up a deal that will nearly double their size. Chicago's federal court had approved their $1,940,000 bid for the bankrupt trucking company that Chicago's burly, brash John Keeshin had sprawled over 17 states from Boston to Washington and up through the Midwest to the Twin Cities. Overexpanded and harried by labor troubles, Jack Keeshin had pulled out of the line in 1945 (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945) just before it slumped into bankruptcy. Nursed back to health by court appointed trustees, the Keeshin Freight Lines made $484,000 before...
When P.I.E.'s routes are spliced to Keeshin's, P.I.E. will have a 24,000-mile coast-to-coast truck network, winding through 23 states and the District of Columbia. By running Keeshin's routes with P.I.E. efficiency, Humphries & Johnson think they can truck freight from coast to coast in 9off sleep with coffee. A P.I.E. run from Oakland to Chicago uses a relay team of ten men, one for each section of the route which twists up the gear-grinding slopes of the Rockies and through the Midwest plains to the East...
...must still approve the Keeshin deal, but Humphries expects the final O.K. this month, thinks that P.I.E. has a good chance to gross more than $25 million and become the biggest U.S. trucker...