Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their lack of instruction is scarcely the fault of Senator McCarthy-or President Eisenhower-but the effect is not mitigated by this. The effect is that the President and the anti-McCarthy Republicans quite often seem to horrified European onlookers like rabbits transfixed by the headlights of an onrushing truck...
RAILROAD v. TRUCK battle for freight business will soon be on a more even footing. The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that current truck rates on less than carload lots throughout the East and Midwest are too low and constitute "destructive competition." ICC has ordered the truckers to boost rates from 16? to 33? per 100 Ibs. to bring them closer into line with railroad charges...
...president, the American Trucking Associations likes to pick a trucker whose business is a model in the trade. Last year it picked a trucker who seemed to fit all the qualifications: Birmingham's John B. Cole Jr., 44. A onetime freight-commission salesman, Jack Cole bought his first truck 20 years ago, built up a fleet of 195 diesel tractors and 285 trailers, a staff of 400 drivers, mechanics and clerks, and a ten-city chain of terminals. But last week Cole's business was anything but a model. In a pay dispute with his drivers...
...bloodhounds were put on the trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...
...even have special pliers to cut chain locks," one officer warned as he wrote. "We'll bring a truck over and cart 'em all away to the station." He carefully attached the ticket to a pair of handlebars, then moved on to the next vehicle...