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Frisco Vice President Jack E. Gilliland, the line's Texas-born, methodical traffic manager, decided to try "piggyback," i.e., loading auto truck trailers directly onto flatcars (minus the cab). It found piggyback trains could beat the truck time from St. Louis to Dallas by as much as eight hours, plant to dealer-at a price per car of only $73.90 v., $97.35 by truck. In the first half of this year, the Frisco's auto shipments rose to nearly 50,000 cars, accounting for 4.4% of the railroad's total freight revenue...
Right Flank March. A month later, he put Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower piggyback in the cockpit of a P-51 and took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted...
...Central's Perlman has his mind set on "a fresh approach." Possible solutions: turn the express business over to private freight forwarders, who could use piggyback service coordinating rail and road traffic, or let the Government take over express as parcel post...
...year was 1936, and Jimmy Hines was riding piggyback on political success. As Tammany Hall's leader of the slum-bound Eleventh Assembly District on the city's uptown west side, charged with guarding and delivering the district's Democratic vote, Hines had won the acclaim of his followers by employing a basic technique: disbursing favors. "In politics," he explained, "the thing to do is build yourself an army...
...emergencies in the islands usually find amphibious Dr. Heath close at hand. At Eastsound, Heath saw a light airplane crash with two occupants, hurried to the scene to give lifesaving aid to the single survivor. When a tree fell on an Orcas Island logger, Heath lugged the injured man piggyback to a Coast Guard ambulance plane. Another emergency call summoned Heath to a yacht to treat a woman who was bleeding dangerously from a severed artery in her thumb. Heath popped a rubber band around the thumb for a tourniquet, had an assistant sterilize instruments in a pot of boiling...