Word: trailering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusty, 64-year-old trailer manufacturer from Los Angeles named Wally Byam. Wally has organized 27 such "Wally Byam's Caravans" before, and his customers have almost all been elderly men and women who would rather risk as much as $25,000 on an adventure than sit out their retirement on a back porch. For the trailer business, it has proved good publicity, but Wally likes to think that his caravans have a kind of mission. These, says he of his companions, are no ordinary big-talking, big-spending tourists. They are "a group of upper-middle-class Americans...
Wally's talent is not so much for diplomacy as organization. He demands discipline: a brash trailer owner who disputed him got left behind in Ethiopia. He also delegates the work. The head of the crucial Gas and Fuel Committee is a vigorous former banker from Texas named George Ezell, 62. Louis Mousely, who once grew apples in upstate New York, is the wagon boss who herds the trailers into frontier circle formation at night, and carries a special piece of string about as a measure to see that each is the proper distance from the other. Retired Contractor...
...little method of getting the benefits of U.S.-built ships without the high cost. On order last week from the Hamburg yards of German Shipbuilder Willy Schlieker (TIME, Oct. 26) were the midsections of six vessels for Mobile's McLean Industries, Inc. With a booming business carrying highway trailer vans by sea, McLean decided to add six new vessels, each with a capacity of 476 vans, to his fleet of trailer ships. The problem was that if the vessels were built abroad they could not ship between domestic ports...
Booked Up. Coghlan, who currently lives with his 19-year-old wife and infant daughter in a house trailer parked on the Port Arthur harbor ice, was overdue for some luck. Last summer a sudden Lake Superior gale swallowed Superior's 60-ft. barge, with equipment worth $20,000. Coghlan, fished out after five minutes in the lake, had no applicable insurance, was left with little equipment and $8,000 in debts. Steady elevator-inspection work now has the debts "under control," and Coghlan has bookings for $50,000 more of the same this year. But he yearns...