Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1957, when a North Carolina trucker, Malcom McLean, discovered that he could save time and cut down on theft and breakage by hoisting his goodsladen truck rigs directly aboard ship, containerization has completely transformed the shipping industry. As a result, if the I.L.A.'s strike continues much beyond next week, it will tie up the great bulk of general cargo that moves...
...iceberg in Arabia within three years. He had already succeeded in delivering a berg of sorts to Iowa, which had not seen one since the last glacier retreated, some 12,000 years ago. To dramatize his plan, the prince spent $5,000 to transport-by helicopter, plane and truck-a mini-berg of clear blue ice from Alaska's Portage Glacier to the conference, where it was chopped up and used for the delegates' drinks...
...Vancouver. This week he travels to Ohio for the U.S. Peanut Olympics, which involves a shelling contest and other hilarities. A line of Billy posters, T shirts and belt buckles is going on the market. California's Revell Inc. is manufacturing a model Billy Carter Redneck Power Pickup Truck. Billy has appeared at Manhattan's "21" Club to push a peanut liqueur, and a Kentucky brewer is bringing out a new brand called Billy Beer, which the First Brother will hawk on TV. He has forsaken the family's peanut warehouse business, but stands to earn some...
...When a business executive can charge off a $55 luncheon on a tax return and a truck driver cannot deduct his $1.50 sandwich, then we need basic tax reform...
Typical of the Surgicenter's cases is that of Andrew Dunham, a blond, 23-year-old Phoenix truck driver whose severely injured finger became badly infected and required surgery. Had his doctor chosen to operate in a hospital, Dunham would probably have been kept at least one night, perhaps longer. Instead, the surgeon-one of more than 300 doctors in the Phoenix area who occasionally use the Surgicenter-directed him to the facility at 10:45 one morning last week. Half an hour later, he was wheeled into an operating room and given a general anesthetic. In just...