Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wring all the mileage they can from new technology, the railroads are promoting piggyback delivery of truck trailers, adopting computer-controlled operations and bookkeeping, devising special-purpose cars to win back shippers. Multilevel auto-rack cars, for instance, have enabled railroads to regain $100 million of motorcar hauling lost to trucks, while saving automakers $200 million. A few rail lines are even making a bid for passengers. Though two of his routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing...
...summer of 1965, two Fort Worth gas-station attendants reported that a couple of Negro gunmen had robbed them of $3,000 in broad day light. Not until a month later did the city's undermanned police force pick up a suspect. Then Negro Truck Driver Ervin Byrd, 33, was nabbed on an anonymous tip. Though he loudly pro tested his innocence, the cops were satisfied, and the victims quickly picked Byrd out of a lineup...
...loss, the company filed no charges, and no one notified the police. Byrd, unable to make bail, stayed in jail for almost six months, vainly pleading for a session with a lie-detector test himself. Not until last Jan. 31 did the prosecutor finally permit the test, which the truck driver passed with flying colors; not until last month did the police finally erase Byrd's "criminal record." Byrd himself must now erase the $8,000 in debts that his wife and four children racked up during their breadwinner's absence. Because of his experience, the polygraph...
Slightly Embarrassing. The Fort Worth prosecutor promptly tested McKinley Powell, 36, another Negro truck driver, who had been accused of murder last June. Powell also passed-whereupon his accuser confessed the crime. The day after Powell's release, the prosecutor tested Donald G. Carter, 19, who had spent three months in jail awaiting trial for a burglary that he insisted he did not commit. Carter also passed; the police rechecked his story and belatedly discovered that he was telling them the truth from the start: he was in state prison on another charge at the time of the burglary...
Mister Buddwing fritters away nearly two hours helping James Garner to identify himself. His name isn't really Buddwing. But soon after he wakes up in Central Park with a blank past, he shoots significant glances at a Budweiser truck (Budd) and a jet plane (wing). Easy. Thus begins, again, the old amnesia plot. Remember? This time around, forget...