Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their continuing study of the new-style American business success-the fellow who has a fat Government contract in his hand and a tax lawyer at his elbow -a House subcommittee last week got an advanced lesson from a Chicago truck dealer named Morris Green. He told how to buy surplus property under one set of rules, get the rules changed, then sell the goods for a $425,000 profit...
...late Joseph Freeman, onetime Washington business agent indicted in the Garsson-May munitions scandal but later acquitted, demanded $100,000 for steering Green to the right people. Freeman never did a thing, said Green, but after he died, the truck dealer softheartedly thought of Freeman's widow and infant and settled out of court...
...year ago, a truck carrying eight men and a load of automatic weapons rumbled from Berlin's Eastern sector over into the West. West Berlin police arrested them on charges of being members of the East zone's Bereitschaften, the heavily armed shock troops the Russians were illegally organizing in the East zone (TIME, June 12). At their trial, two of the men turned state's evidence. One of them, 21-year-old Heinz Nocht, gave Western intelligence a detailed picture of the new East German army, amply equipped by the Russians with Nazi weapons. Since then...
...Madame Pholien quietly paid their own fares on a scheduled Sabena Airline flight to New York. After some hurried sightseeing in Manhattan, the Pholiens, accompanied by State Department and Belgian officials, left Washington last week for a look at the country. They inspected a General Motors truck plant in Detroit and a chemical factory in Muscle Shoals, Ala., rode in a helicopter at Wright Field. Back in Washington the Premier had lunch at Blair House with Dean Acheson and Harry Truman...
...night, at the village of Villevieux in central France, Vincent Auriol silently crawled in among the sacks in the back of a mail truck. Then the truck jounced past two German sentries, on its way to an open field six kilometers from town. Thirty townsmen had already slipped out to the field, to signal with flashlights to an approaching R.A.F. plane. Shortly after midnight, Auriol, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and three other passengers were safe in the air, bound for London...