Word: keeshin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young, husky John Keeshin went to work driving a horse-drawn truck when he was 13. In the next 32 years, he founded and built Keeshin Freight Lines, Inc. into the biggest privately owned trucking company in the U.S., with 3,000 employes, 2,000 trucks and 17,000 miles of routes cobwebbing the East and Midwest. Last week husky Mr. Keeshin, now 45, stalked into a board of directors meeting. Said he bitterly: "I'm quitting. Why not liquidate the company? As long as the unions insist on jacking up wages and cutting down efficiency with featherbed rules...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, already choked with applications for new flying routes from U.S. airlines, last week disclosed that twelve land lines (truckers, bus operators and railroads) had also asked for permission to muscle into the airfreight business. The biggest: Chicago's fabulous Keeshin Freight Lines...
...Keeshin's tough-as-nails President John Louis Keeshin started out (in 1913) with one horse and wagon, wound up (in 1936) as the No. 1 U.S. trucker. By that time Jack Keeshin had the potent help of John Hertz, Lehman Bros, partner and Yellow Cab Co. founder, and of Hertz's tough right-hand man Daniel G. Arnstein (who later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both...
...transport can get off to a fast start after the war. One tip came last week, when CAB permitted three airlines (United, TWA and Eastern) to establish new routes to Washington as soon as the Army would let them have some more planes. But for land operators like Keeshin, the going may be tougher: during its five years of existence CAB has not allowed other common carriers to own any airlines...