Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials, he could and did cite 23 convictions, two turns in Dartmoor Prison, and the invention of the "jump-up"-an athletic hijacking technique accomplished by jumping from the hood of a moving car over the tail gate of a truck just ahead...
Make It Tough. Such was the case last week when Moderator Bud Collyer introduced each of three men as "Thomas Carpenter, West Point cadet." One imposter was actually a Coast Guard ensign, the other a truck driver who had learned to brace his back in the Marine Corps. Both had spent the previous day at West Point, boning up on campus customs, getting regulation haircuts and uniforms fitted. Three of the panelists guessed the truck driver, an act he greeted with one of the most triumphant smiles ever flashed on the TV screen. Another time the panel had to pick...
...CARGO PACTS, by which common-carrier truck lines agree to boycott cargo going to or from any company that is branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are invalid. NLRB reversed its 1949 decision, said that such contracts are secondary boycotts in violation of Taft-Hartley...
Died. James ("Big Jim") Campbell, 62, tough but mild-mannered general secretary of Britain's 370,000-man National Union of Railwaymen; after a car collision (with a Russian truck) in which N.U.R. President Tom Hollywood, 54, was also fatally injured; in Stalingrad's Defense Square (top British union officials were on a three-week tour of Russia...
Overdrive Test. In Bellflower, Calif., Truck Driver Lon F. Allen, 27, explained why he tried to run over a highway patrolman: "I wanted to prove I was not afraid of a policeman...