Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Probable holdouts: the carpenters' William Hutcheson, a lifelong Republican; the building service employees' William McFetridge. The teamsters' Dan Tobin, who is still mad because the President signed the Hobbs bill, designed to curb "racketeering" by his truck drivers, has not made up his mind...
...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
Profits & Losses. On top of these added costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...
Stocky, blond Edwin Phillips, 44, who gave up prospecting and struck it richer in the vegetable-trucking business, caught the new fever. He drove his truck as far into the mountains as he could, then abandoned it and hiked into the uranium area. "It hit him like a brick," said his wife...
...manufacturing groups studied, the Survey found that nine were continuing an unbroken uptrend begun in 1945, but 17 had shown declines for six months or more. In the downtrend group were automobile tires, truck-trailers, water heaters, oil burners, glass containers, shoes, and women's and children's clothing (see Textiles...