Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRUCKERS have presented the Post Office with a plan they say will save $85 million a year by shifting all mail from railroads to trucks for distances up to 300 miles. They argue that trucks are faster, cheaper and more flexible. Postal authorities seemed unimpressed by the plan since most big post offices are geared to rail service, are not set up to handle heavy truck traffic...
Tightening up his too-late theme, Author Lewis turns the vise of his plot until poor Crane is crushed. Trouble begins with some petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than...
Another Year, Perhaps? In Atlanta, the women's chamber of commerce decided to postpone Noise Abatement Week when it learned that its antilittering committee had already scheduled a parade, with ten brass bands, 125 marching units, a garbage truck, and eight National Guard jets for low air cover...
...difficulties involved in getting the bells into the tower proved so great, however, that many wondered whether Crane's effort had been worthwhile. A group of men spent four hours moving the largest one, a fourteen ton affair, from its truck, and it nearly crashed to the ground anyway. All the bells were stored in a shack near Gore Hall while scaffolding was built along the sides of the tower. One winter alone was consumed in hoisting the carillon to its final perch...
PIGGYBACK TRUCK trailers (TIME, Feb. 22) will be put into large-scale operation for the first time on a major Eastern trunk line within the next few months. The New York Central will put on 420 special flatcars designed to carry two highway trailers back-to-back, will spend about $5,000,000 for terminals in five cities (Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Boston, Detroit) to handle the new service...