Word: truck
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INTRODUCE A NATIONAL TRANSPORT POLICY. Such a policy should equalize subsidies and taxes among various forms of transportation and let the most efficient form prevail. A first priority should be removal of the legal barriers to creation of integrated transportation companies that could own railroads, airlines and truck lines, and move goods and people in the most economic manner. The fragmentation of transport today is costly. A shipper should be free to turn his goods over to, say, the Land-Sea-Air Transport Co., rather than having to negotiate separately with airlines, railroads, truckers...
...Denver-born son of a poverty-plagued musician, Kelso developed his theories partly from his own struggle to make a living. He went to work when he was in the ninth grade and drove a dynamite truck to earn his way through the University of Colorado, from which he holds degrees in both finance and law. He grew interested in economics, he says, "by brooding about the absurdity of the Depression." While stationed in the Canal Zone as a Navy intelligence officer during World War II, he wrote a 600-page manuscript pro pounding his views...
...dozen police cars filled with helmeted policemen lined the streets near the city hall. Prominent in the front seat of each car was the muzzle of a tear gas rifle. The situation was tense, but the rally went off without incident. Across the street was a large green truck. On its roof long cameras with microphones slowly and silently turned around, recording the rally and the people standing around...
...case today," Arthur Gates Barkley told his wife Sue before leaving their modest home in northeast Phoenix, Ariz. The case concerned $471.78 owed to the Government in back taxes. A small amount, perhaps, to argue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Barkley, an unemployed truck driver, had done just that-and lost. At the airport he gave his wife a long, lingering kiss, then boarded TWA Flight 486 for Washington, a trip he had made several times before in seeking redress of his grievances...
Died. Milburn P. Akers, 70, longtime (1949-65) managing editor and editor of the Chicago Sun-Times; of injuries suffered when the car he was driving collided with a truck; near Hopedale, Ill. Akers saw the press as society's watchdog and became famous for his Chicago crusades against brutal police and crooked politicians...