Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each week thousands of railroadmen, truck drivers and pilots are at their jobs around the clock to speed TIME to a newsstand conveniently near you. Recently, we asked one of our Midwest correspondents to interview one of them-a St. Louis truck driver-to give us a closer look at one of the many people who handle newsstand copies of TIME in transit. He was 48-year-old John Deibel, a senior highway pilot for the Consolidated Forwarding Co. If your copy of TIME this week came from a newsstand in the St. Louis area, it was hauled from Chicago...
...work in a plant got his shin barked by a small hand truck. After the slight wound had healed, his leg became infected. A hospital gave him treatment, but after two weeks at home, he felt progressively worse. A few days later he died. An autopsy showed he had had a skin disease and was sensitive to any small wound. Thus his widow and children received lawful benefits from the company, which did not examine the man close enough to detect the disease when he began work there...
Things were bad all around for chubbily cheerful Roger Lamy, a truck driver of Douai. Three months ago his wife had died, leaving him six children to care for. Four weeks ago he learned that he would soon be out of a job: the municipal project on which he was working was closing down. Nevertheless, Roger set off on the vacation still due him, determined to keep his spirits high. Last week he returned to Douai. If his mood could be described in a phrase, that phrase was "never...
Sullivan's ire was aroused Saturday night when he ran into a bottle-neck on side street and had to back out. "Students' cars were double parked in streets around the Harvard Square area. What if fire breaks out some night in those dormitories? A fire truck could never get to it," he stated...
...sisters of the Roman Catholic Society of Christ Our King have worn a habit patterned after that of the Carmelite nuns. On the order's farm at Danville, Va., this has led to practical difficulties, e.g., flowing sleeves get in the way when the sisters drive their Dodge truck. Last week the tiny sisterhood (nine members) had a brand-new habit. Its designer: Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie...