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...Many a trucker has wondered how much time & money he could save if his firm were big enough to buy tires and gasoline in bulk, carry a 100% pay load on all trips, act as its own insurance company. In 1939 a corporation called The Transport Co. was organized to find out. Transport's plan: to buy up 48 trucking and truck renting firms (operating over 10,000 vehicles in 18 Eastern and Southern States), consolidate them into the nation's first really big motorized freight system...
...after another Republican reform regime (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's) came in, Jimmy Hines had to live on savings. In 1918 he got into the Malto-Dextrine (glucose) business as a factory supervisor and trucker for $100 a week and a percentage of profits. He arranged the sale of a 25% interest in Malto-Dextrine to Charles F. Murphy, Tammany's big boss...
...This trucker lost his WPA job because he didn't give $100 to the Democratic campaign...
...Carey nevertheless thought he had done well for them: Philco had threatened to move out of Philadelphia, had already sublet its work to nonunion, out-of-town shops, and union men & women had been selling stuffed dates, shining shoes, going on relief. Principal union advantage: wealthy, fair-minded Trucker James Patrick Clarke is to arbitrate disputes, see to it that Philco keeps most of its production in Philadelphia...
...Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., stood trial before a general courtmartial. On and behind a pine table were twelve sabres, twelve senior officers. The court had to consider charges that Colonel Giffin: 1) did "maliciously knock the hat off the head of one Joseph Currao [a trucker], thereby precipitating a drunken brawl ... to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 2) did visit a residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet . . . to the scandal and disgrace of the military service...