Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Carmine De Sapio, at 46, has good reason to view realistically. The son of Italian-born parents, he grew up on Manhattan's lower West Side (where he lives today in a four-room apartment with his wife and daughter). His father ran a two-truck hauling outfit for which Carmine worked-in the office, carefully keeping the accounts...
...Central, which had great plans for new terminals and cars for "piggybacking" truck trailers on flatcars under the old management (TIME, April 19), has changed its mind. Instead, the road will try to win business from truckers with new fast freight runs, such as the new New York-Chicago schedules that cut perishable-goods shipments by ten hours. ¶ Next month the Interstate Commerce Commission will be asked for permission to discontinue the road's West Shore line, which carries some 4,000 commuters down the west side of the Hudson, then takes them across to Manhattan...
...properties (including the same molecular structure) of natural, tree-grown rubber will be produced by Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc. The new synthetic, which could make the U.S. completely self-sufficient in rubber during wartime, can be substituted for natural rubber now needed in such strategic items as airplane and truck tires...
Rising up from one side of his villa is a white tower from which he can gaze meditatively at Havana and the sea, or at his own domain-the finca's 13 acres, including flower and truck gardens, fruit trees, seven cows (which provide all the household's milk and butter), a large swimming pool, a temporarily defunct tennis court. In the 60-foot-long living room, heads of animals Hemingway shot in Africa stare glassy-eyed from the walls. But most imposing of all are Hemingway's books. He consumes books, newspapers and random printed matter...
...shortage, fixes the grocery price of milk 1?higher than the home-delivered price, even though it usually costs nearly 3? a quart less to sell through a grocery. Thus milk is 26? a quart in Birmingham, but in Chattanooga, a freely competitive market about four hours away by truck, milk is only 16? a quart. Wisconsin, because of highly efficient mass production and distribution methods, claims it could deliver fresh milk in Manhattan for 11.2? a quart wholesale (almost 1? less than the New York price). But a New York State control law keeps all Wisconsin milk...