Word: rissing
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...made nine errors in three innings in his first game, feigned a leg injury to get off the field. The disgusted manager of the team, whose father was a produce dealer, waived Riss to him. He put Riss to work selling a carload of ripe bananas before they spoiled. Riss not only turned in a profit but in a few months was in his own produce business, with a truck and a debt of $1,060. When he made back the $1,060 in 25 days by hauling fruit from orchards and farms, the town's leading produce dealer...
...when the Interstate Commerce Commission stepped in to certify routes for the fast-growing industry, Riss had lines running from Texas to Illinois...
With all his debts paid off and profits rolling in, Riss made $99,000 in 1939. But when the arms program started, he went back into debt to expand, lost $400,000 in 1941 and 1942. Before the war ended, he was in the black again to stay...
...Bigger. Riss & Co. now operates in 22 states and owns 27 truck terminals, nine of them built since the war. With its new equipment, it will have 1,650 trailers and 625 tractors. Boston operations are run from the largest privately owned terminal in the world. The Cleveland terminal sprawls over 50 acres. The freight house at the company's Kansas City headquarters, built five years ago to allow for future growth is already outgrown. On such heavily traveled routes as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a Riss truck passes on the average of once every twelve minutes, day and night...
...Dick Riss has an unlimited faith in the future of trucking, because the population of the U.S. is increasing by 7,000 every day, and railroads are not expanding to meet the growing needs. Says he: "We've just begun to grow...