Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobile air compressor towed by a dump truck suddenly broke loose, lurched across the Long Island Expressway, crunched into the side of a grey 1959 Cadillac. Only passenger to escape injury: longtime (1948-57) Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, his thickset body still crippled from an auto accident a year ago (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958). Said Roy, shaken by the mishap: "If I hadn't been strapped in, I'd have gone through the windshield...
...friend saw the Jaguar suddenly go into a long skid. "I thought: 'Good old Mike. He'll soon flick out of that one.' " But this time, Mike Hawthorn's practiced skill was not enough. The Jaguar whipped into the opposite lane, clipped an oncoming truck, rolled over twice, bounced off a tree, ended, a battered pile of junk, in a roadside hedge. It took firemen an hour to extricate Mike's body...
...presented the best possible evidence that his company, the nation's oldest truckmaking firm, is feeling no pain from G.M., Ford or Chrysler competition. On a record $270 million in sales, White earned $6.95 per share in 1958, almost the highest profit in its 59-year-old trucking history, in a year when overall truck sales dropped 18%. Of the profits, $3 per share were racked up in the final quarter. Said White's Black: "I am confident that our current year will hit a new sales record...
...fiber-glass cab was the latest example of Black's truck pioneering, which has enabled it in the heavy field (13 tons and up) to outsell G.M., Ford and Chrysler combined. Its whole line runs neck and neck with the only other all-truck company, Mack Trucks...
Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...