Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...views. Said one Annenberg aide: "In the Delaware Valley, with 5,200,000 people, there's room for such a paper." The new management also moved swiftly to cut the payroll, and by week's end had laid off 77 staffers, including 16 newsmen and some 30 truck-drivers. To News employees it was an old story. Just before Christmas last year, Matt McCloskey fired 64 (of 117) editorial staffers...
...bills. Penn-Texas sold Hallicrafters Co. (which brought in $30 million yearly in sales) and Industrial Brownhoist Corp. (sales: $14 million). Now Penn-Texas' President Leopold Silberstein is dickering to sell its 51% interest in Tex-Penn Oil & Gas Corp., Liberty Aircraft Products Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel...
...Moon. In Elko, Nev., Millard Dick. 38. smashed his car into the side of a truck, protested the charge of reckless driving because "I know I had the right of way-the light was blue...
...Railway Express truck pulled up at a big yellow brick house on Chicago's North Drake Avenue one morning last week, and as the deliveryman handed over a package, he said knowingly, "Here's another one for the doc." Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...
...Robert B. Riss, 31, resigned as president of Riss & Co., third largest U.S. over-the-road truck line, was replaced by his father, Richard R. Riss, 54, who founded the family-owned corporation in 1930, got out of the presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back...