Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard-driving President Malcom McLean, 40, who built his company up from a secondhand dump truck, has already bought the S.C. Loveland shipping company for its franchise rights to operate coastal routes, is negotiating a $24 million contract with Bethlehem Steel for four 6,000-ton trailer transports. With the ICC's blessing, McLean hopes to have his ships ready by late...
Touring Home. A self-powered home on wheels was put into mass production by Michigan's Saginaw Manufacturing Co. Built on a G.M. light-truck chassis, the "Safari" sleeps four, comes with air conditioning, gasoline-burning generator, septic-tank lavatory, shower stall, stove, refrigerator and kitchen sink. Price...
...Road. In Auburn, Ind., Carl Wilder, charged with drunken driving after his truck went through a farmyard, caromed off an automobile and demolished 100 yds. of fence, told police: "I always take this shortcut...
...meet, he was on a treadmill of odd jobs outside of school hours: bill collecting, refereeing occasional basketball and football games, pumping gasoline at a neighborhood filling station. With all the extra work, he was still not making enough -not nearly as much as he could get as a truck driver (a possible $120 a week) or as full-time filling-station...
SOUTHERN Pacific has joined the New York, New Haven & Hartford in shipping truck trailers on railroad flatcars. The line is converting flatcars to handle trailers, is putting twelve piggyback cars with 240,000 Ibs. of merchandise on its Dallas-Houston, Fort Worth-Houston and Texas-Louisiana runs. ANHEUSERBusch, which opens - its new $15 million Los Angeles brewery (TIME, Oct. 26) this week, is also looking for a bigger share of the Gulf Coast market. It is buying a 150-acre tract at New Orleans, will build a $20 million brewery with a 1,000,000 bbl.-a-year capacity...