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...biggest overseas supplier of fresh foods to U.S. armed forces in Europe is a 35-year-old ex-G.I. by the name of Robert T. McLane. McLane's huge fleet of refrigerated trucks delivers American-style white bread twice weekly to U.S. units from Berlin to Bordeaux; every day he ships eleven freight cars of fresh milk to Army mess halls and post exchanges. At the delivery entrance of Paris' U.S. embassy, at the private billets of American officials, at some 400 service clubs and European restaurants, McLane's trucks roll up with everything from fresh...
...quick rise to success Merchant McLane has introduced into Europe the most modern and businesslike American methods of food processing and distribution. But to get where he is, McLane has also used such unbusinesslike methods as smuggling, bribery, corrupting public officials, jumping bail and evading arrest...
From Guns to Eggs. Massachusetts-born, Bob McLane studied at Babson Institute before he went off to World War II, fought across The Netherlands, returned to Europe after the war as a military government clerk in Wiesbaden. On a trip home in 1949 McLane first ran afoul of the law. U.S. customs officials arrested him in Boston for bringing in an undeclared diamond ring, got him convicted in Federal Court and fined $500. ; Back in Europe that year McLane took leave from his military government post to visit wartime Dutch friends who ran a wholesale food business, got the idea...
Jededish H. McLane '58, of Lowell House and Millbrook, New York...
Gates, Herrick and McLane all perished when flames swept through their Quebec chalet early Tuesday morning. They had just arrived after an 800 mile drive, for three days skiing...