Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRUCKS will be built in Brazil for first time. Automaker will spend $10 million for enginebuild-ing and foundry equipment, as a start, will eventually turn out six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engines from new plant near Sao Paulo in 1958, Chevy-type trucks later. G.M. is trebling its automotive investment in G.M. do Brasil, which now makes truck cabs and refrigerators, assembles trucks, cars...
...twenty-eight my personal crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost...
...matter of economic necessity. From 1939 to 1954, the railroads' share of intercity freight slumped from 63% to less than 50%, while the truckers' share jumped from 10% to 19%. Now, with the help of piggybacking, the roads hope to win back lost ground. Last year truck business slipped to 17.7%, while railroads just about held their own. Says Southern Pacific's Assistant General Freight Agent Ray F. Robinson: "Ninetynine percent of our piggyback business is business we never had before-freight that had been moving over the highway." The Pennsylvania Railroad alone is getting $10 million...
...biggest piggybackers, the Pennsy and the New York, New Haven & Hartford, have elaborate cooperative programs to handle truck-company trailers as well as their own, provide such economical service that more and more highway companies are putting . their trailers on flatcars for trips of 500 miles or more. Drivers' wages (as high as $175 a week), highway taxes and equipment costs are so steep that some truckers are thus able to snip as much as 9? per mile from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads...
...truckers, is that piggyback's impressive savings may prove their undoing. They fear that while short-run profits may rise, piggybacking leaves the door open for railroads to steal away bigger and bigger chunks of the freight market with their own trailer fleets. Says the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, some of whose members look on piggybacking with a jaundiced eye: "Let's say the ABC trucking company operates a fleet of 1,000 power units and 1,500 trailers from the Midwest to the Eastern seaboard. Then the company decides to use piggyback. It disposes...