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...guilty parties, charged Southwestern Bell, was King Van Lines, Inc. a big Wichita trucking outfit operating from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evidence: a photostatic copy of a King interoffice memo which Bell's lawyers got from a disgruntled trucker that proved King was working a switch on the old "collect call" routine. Said the memo from King's vice president John Kelso: "I know the method, I think, where we can save 30.89% immediately on our phone calls. Coupled with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill...
...Illustrated American advised "the youth who cannot undergo the amusing ordeal with equanimity" to remain at home "in bib and trucker, and confine his worldly career to the mastery of the abacus and the building of mud pies...
...president, the American Trucking Associations likes to pick a trucker whose business is a model in the trade. Last year it picked a trucker who seemed to fit all the qualifications: Birmingham's John B. Cole Jr., 44. A onetime freight-commission salesman, Jack Cole bought his first truck 20 years ago, built up a fleet of 195 diesel tractors and 285 trailers, a staff of 400 drivers, mechanics and clerks, and a ten-city chain of terminals. But last week Cole's business was anything but a model. In a pay dispute with his drivers...
...diesel engine. Until then, diesels had injected fuel either directly into the cylinder, which made them economical but slow, or through an antechamber, which made them fast but expensive. Perkins combined the best features of each system, and took out a patent. With hard times forcing every British trucker to cut costs, Perkins decided they would welcome an engine that would burn untaxed diesel oil, then about 9? a gallon, v. 18? for gasoline...
...Last Wills. In true Chicago style, Cook County's Coroner Walter McCarron, a politician and trucker with no medical training, leaped happily into the case-and the headlines. Thorne had made one will leaving everything to his mother. But a second will, made nine days before his death, bequeathed most of the money to pretty Maureen Ragen and her mother, Mrs. Aleen Ragen. Day after day, Coroner McCarron called before the television newsreel cameras the weeping women who loved Thorne-and now seek his inheritance-to cast suspicion on each other...