Word: trailer
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...right of way has also been cleared for piggybacking by the emergence of companies that now buy and lease piggy back cars and trailers, leaving railroads free to spend capital on track and tunnel improvement and such new yards as Proviso Piggyback. The most energetic of the leasing companies is Philadelphia-based Trailer Train Co., whose stock is owned by 35 railroads and by the U.S. Freight Co., the nation's largest freight forwarder. The company started with 530 piggyback cars in 1956, now has 16,000 moving around the U.S. - and is ordering hundreds of new ones each...
Piggyback's big success naturally worries truckers, and Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa assesses trucking companies $5 for moving any trailer that made part of the journey by rail. Despite heavy pressure from the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission recently refused to reverse its 1954 decision approving piggybacking. The railroads expect piggybacking to double by 1970, eventually account for as much as half of all U.S. freight moved by rail...
Dylan Thomas wrote Falesá while living in a trailer in Oxford. He got about $3,300 for it, most of which he wheedled out of the producers in advance, soulfully telling them that he had no money for Christmas presents for his children. When he had story conferences with the cinema people, he would listen cooperatively to their suggestions, then go forget everything in a string of Soho pubs. Said one movie man: "If that boy had had a bit of discipline, he would have been the greatest screenwriter of all time...
...Mersey then resold them for $425,000 and, says the jury indictment, gave McGinnis $35,000, Benson $11,500, and Glacy $25,000. Pat McGinnis denied the charges from the Manhattan office where he now works as vice president of Highway Trailer Industries Inc., a firm that makes trucks...
Just as rain threatened to wash away the new road, the 16-ton head was removed by trailer and then shipped on loan to Houston. This week it arrived-a superb, Buddha-like sculpture nine feet high, whose meaning to the Olmec civilization is lost to history...