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Soon after his arrival in Zanesville, Earl Jones turned from WPA trucking to coal hauling, then bought into a coal mine. He added other mines for a total output of about one million tons a year, which he sells to one electric-power station. The onetime trucker installed a belt conveyer that does away with most trucking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Main-Street Battler | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeshin Air Freight? | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethal Chamber | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair-Raising Tales | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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