Word: truckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thieves' Highway (20th Century-Fox) is a flashy, second-rate film with a simple, violent story. On his first haul, a fruit trucker (Richard Conte) foils some market thieves, avenges a robbery of his father, sells his apples at a profit and gets the girl. The movie makes no pretentions to anything but entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck...
Setting forth on this errand, he headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning. The pace wilted his helpers, but after three punishing days Dewey was still full of pep and rich with delegates...
Banker's Pay. Custom-cutting will remain profitable as long as wheat prices remain high and farmers grow more than they can cut with their own machinery. Dupree, a trucker in Phillipsburg, Kans. in the winter, has done well enough to acquire two combines, two trucks, a pickup and trailer (worth more than...
...strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed for more than nine months a settlement of their demands for a 44-hour week and overtime pay increases (highest wage of a London trucker: about $22 a week*). Even the Government's delayed and reluctant decision to use troops to move food (most Londoners were down to half-rations of meat and vegetables and some were down to no rations at all) failed to move the striking truckmen. But "Operation Eatables" (the soldiers...
Reporters sought out witnesses. Bessie Barren, who had been a friend of Vera Walush, talked: Vera had admitted the cops had forced her to identify Joe falsely. Zagata, the trucker, told of being called into the judge's chambers, of hearing the judge say he believed Joe was innocent...