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...business they have lost to the trucking industry. By a vote of 10 to 1, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that the railroads could offer cut rates on piggybacking-the carrying of freight-loaded truck bodies on railroad flatcars-in cases where the shipper himself provides either the trailer or trailer and flatcar...
...even before that. Says he: "I can remember mowing lawns when I was so small I couldn't get both hands up to the lawn-mower handle." After a World War II stint in the Air Force, he drifted into Phoenix with a young wife, a trailer, and a $12,000 stake he had earned running a short-order restaurant in Detroit...
...Bell, Cowart and Griggs had little cause for celebration. All have lived miserably since their return. Bell now dwells in a small house trailer with his wife and four children near Olympia, Wash., earns $1.70 an hour in a Christmas tree nursery. Cowart was last reported working as a dishwasher in Alabama after being fired from jobs in a Cleveland restaurant and as a magazine salesman and truck driver in Texas and Oklahoma when employers learned of his past. Griggs, after getting a sociology degree from Texas' Stephen F. Austin State College and trying to peddle a book...
...Chicago, the visitors were taken on a motor tour of the suburbs, passed a trailer court and asked how much rent the tenants paid and how they disposed of their sewage. Daniil Kraminov, editor of the weekly Za Rubezhom (Abroad), was interviewed by Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, and noted, with some malice, an example of nepotism in the U.S. press: "Our delegation visited the New York Times, and we learned how you have to be a son-in-law to get promoted. Adolph Ochs made his son-in-law publisher and now [Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is making...
...miracle worker, Salome goes out of her head. Yet at film's end, for reasons known only to God and the moviemakers, she heals a crippled child just by praying over him. Her faith restored, even if the audience is confused, she and George head for his cozy trailer and, presumably, the troubled trail again...