Word: truckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keeshin's tough-as-nails President John Louis Keeshin started out (in 1913) with one horse and wagon, wound up (in 1936) as the No. 1 U.S. trucker. By that time Jack Keeshin had the potent help of John Hertz, Lehman Bros, partner and Yellow Cab Co. founder, and of Hertz's tough right-hand man Daniel G. Arnstein (who later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both...
...dither of debate and determination, by a vote of 270-to-107, it passed the Hobbs bill to end labor racketeering. Authored by Alabama's drawling, union-hating Representative Sam Hobbs, the bill would make criminal such tricks as stopping out-of-state trucks, forcing the trucker to hire a local union driver or pay his day's wages...
Nowadays many a trucker, rooted out of bed at night, is called upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven-truck caravan rumbled out of Massachusetts with freight for a Pacific convoy, despite a Midwest blizzard made the transcontinental run in eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine...
...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...