Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination of depression and increased truck and barge competition almost wrecked Central. It suspended dividends, and its stock, which had once hit $184, fell to $4.75. Control of the entire $700,000,000 system could have been bought for only $3,300,000. By trimming costs to the bone, President Lawrence Downs and his successor, John L. Beven, managed to pull the road through, though it was touch & go. One time, the papers were even drawn up to put it into bankruptcy. World War II sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million...
...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...
University grounds keepers and truck drivers yesterday petitioned to break with their present union, the University Employees Representative Association...
According to Daniel Gannon, assistant superintendant of Winthrop House, another candidate had submitted petitions to run, containing the necessary number of names, to the nominating committee. He was John W. Smith who drove a truck for the Buildings and Grounds Department before he retired...
...Pleasure" shrewdly parodies the present undergraduate draft uneasiness with a "chances of Being Drafted" chart based on World Situation, declining eyesight, and class standing. And Charles Robinson's cartoon depicts a truck telescoped into a crevice in the road, with the bedraggled driver looking up at "Pardon This Inconvenience While Massachusetts Forges Another . . ." The other cartoons merely break up their respective pages...