Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson, headlined as the "blitzkrieg bandit," met Hughes several months ago when he came to the Mirror to ask help in getting a driver's license so that he could work as a truck driver. Hughes got him the license, from then on frequently got calls from Johnson. "He was a mixed-up guy," says Hughes, "who has been in crime ever since he was a kid. He likes to talk and I like to sit back and listen." Two months ago, Johnson stopped calling, after police started looking for him as a suspect in the strangulation murder...
...small group of men worked quietly in the dark outside West Germany's Parliament building in Bonn one night last week. They were filling an empty truck with the files, documents and official papers of 14 Communist delegates who had just been voted out of their seats (and their office space) in Germany's legislature...
Standard will soon show off new pickaback flatcars, the first especially designed for hauling truck trailers. Biggest improvement: re cessed wells for the trailers, making it easier to load them, and eliminating many overhead clearance problems. Railroad men think that the new cars will enable them to haul trailers for 4? a mile less than truckers can pull them over the highways. If they do, the embattled truckers and railroads may be headed for a profitable truce...
...Everyone recognizes that the trucks perform a vital role in our economy," said A.A.A. President Ralph Thomas, "but the time has come for a proper and adequate determination of the share of highway building costs that should be borne by the principal beneficiaries . . . The passenger car owner is called upon to pay more than his just share of highway costs ... If highways did not have to be built to carry the heavy truck, but only to ... carry the automobile, we could build tens of thousands more miles of improved highways than we are building today with the same amount...
Calculated Delay. In Oneida, N.Y., state police watched Truck Driver Francis Gorman deliver four new patrol cars to their barracks, then nabbed him for driving without a chauffeur's license...