Word: mclean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling victor had three individual champions. At 167, John Weaver stopped Chris Fasiotis of Apley, Dave McLean defeated John Butcher of Matthews North in the 137 pound bout, and Bob Holmes won over Ed Johnson of Massachusetts Hall...
...other Yardling bouts, Hollis' Dave McLean won by a fall from Apley's Archie Leyasmeyer in a 137 pound encounter. At the same weight, Matthews North's John Butcher took a fall of Apley's Myron Barr. The 147 pound class found two Matthews men, Ed Pasternack and Rock Norby, losing by falls to Apley's Dan Murphy and Massachusetts' Bob Wilbur, respectively...
...McLean, which operates 1,425 trucks and trailers and 37 terminals all along the East Coast and last year grossed $19.2 million, has in mind a system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
Some 90% of the company's business is north-south freight, and the ships would cut out 60% of McLean's expensive highway mileage. Though overall shipping time would be slower (30 hours for ships from Wilmington to New York v. 18 for trucks), costs would drop sharply; McLean figures that its ships can haul freight 50% cheaper than trucks on the highway, take business away from railroads...
Hard-driving President Malcom McLean, 40, who built his company up from a secondhand dump truck, has already bought the S.C. Loveland shipping company for its franchise rights to operate coastal routes, is negotiating a $24 million contract with Bethlehem Steel for four 6,000-ton trailer transports. With the ICC's blessing, McLean hopes to have his ships ready by late...