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...trucking regulations were an awful blow to a pretty, 33-year-old redhead from Detroit named Helen Slocum. If no trucks can come home less than 75% loaded, what will happen to the specialized operators (beer, ice cream, etc.) whose equipment is designed for one-way delivery? Helen is such a case. Her specialty is so important that an exception may be made. An off-center Alger heroine, she delivers Navy boats...
...Helen Slocum's husband Lawrence delivered new cars on a haul-away trailer out of Detroit ten years ago, and business was terrible. One day she "read in the paper about some boat races, and got to wondering how they hauled these boats around." Later she heard that Yachtsman Russell A. Alger Jr. was going to take 13 new sloops from Detroit to Charlevoix, Mich., asked...
Setting out to "get acquainted with all the boat people," Mrs. Slocum landed bigger & bigger jobs. Now her Boat Transit Co. has 23 tractors and trailers, some of special sizes. Her business came not only from boatbuilders like Chris-Craft at Algonac, but from private yachtsmen who wanted to sail into strange inland waters, have their boats trucked home. Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself. Husband Lawrence does...
Dolefully, in a smoke-filled, work-scarred room in downtown Manhattan, about 30 City Newsmen held their wake. Among them were oldtimers who had covered the Triangle Waist Co. fire in 1911, the Wall Street explosion in 1920, the General Slocum disaster in 1904. On the wall a sign read: Profanity is vulgar and offensive. Why not quit it? In her cashier's cage Anna Daly Sullivan, only woman on the staff, swore through her tears...
...dinner which will be held at the Harvard Club in Boston Saturday, Lewis Perry will act as toast master and speakers will include: John Livingston Lowes, Frances Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus, Roy E. Larsen, and John Slocum...