Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cavalcade of cars headed by a truck carrying a piano from Holowrthy Hall drove past the dorms and picked up several willing 'Cliffedwellers...
Fruehauf designs for them. For example, during World War II Fruehauf made everything for the Army & Navy from front-line field hospitals to portable command posts and searchlight carriers. Fruehauf's latest model for the Government: a truck post office. It is being designed so that mail can be sorted en route, thus cut delivery time...
Clogged Production. But Roy Fruehauf's problem is not selling trailers; it is making them despite material shortages. When truck tires ran short early this year, Fruehauf kept its production lines rolling by delivering trailers, removing the tires and using them for new deliveries, leaving customers to find their own tires...
...Government has now begun to listen to the truckers' plea for materials with a more sympathetic ear, has started to funnel more scarce materials away from light trucks to heavy truck & trailer makers. (By diverting rubber from civilian tires, rubbermen increased truck-tire output last month to 360,000 from 317,000 in March...
...Fruehauf has found no such solution for the growing opposition to big trucks and trailers. State after state has been clamping down hard on truckers for overloading (TiME, Jan. 22). But Roy Fruehauf is not worried that the trucking industry will be seriously hurt. Said he: "Everything we eat, use, or wear travels by truck and trailers...