Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually takes weeks for my subscription copy of TIME to find its way here by railroad, truck and mule train; the last mail brought your Sept. 24 issue with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s story. The following day one of our students died of typhoid fever. In her class, I heard the teacher comforting her pupils with the words you quoted from Laura Spelman Rockefeller, "Children are my precious jewels -loaned me for a season to be handed back when the call comes." Even here in this small town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware...
...delay in delivery of the magazine to readers. P&D had lined up additional presses at our Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles plants, to boost production to a twice-normal total of 149,000 copies an hour. Its traffic men plotted split-second schedules of distribution by truck, rail, all available regular airline service, and ten chartered planes. Across the U.S. our own circulation men, including TIME Circulation Director Bernhard M. Auer and Newsstand Managers Mark Slater and W. Stuart Powers, and 100 Select Magazines, Inc. distributors stood by to speed deliveries...
...guilty parties, charged Southwestern Bell, was King Van Lines, Inc. a big Wichita trucking outfit operating from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evidence: a photostatic copy of a King interoffice memo which Bell's lawyers got from a disgruntled trucker that proved King was working a switch on the old "collect call" routine. Said the memo from King's vice president John Kelso: "I know the method, I think, where we can save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill...
Markup. In Seattle, Truck Driver James E. Lumpe was sentenced to 20 days for disorderly conduct after he swiped a $1 campaign button at Stevenson headquarters, tried to peddle it for $2 at Eisenhower headquarters...
...Harvard Band rumbled into Princeton by truck, train, and bus in the silent hours before sunlight this morning...