Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jouncing in & out of wadis (valleys) in a locally built truck, the Mallowans scouted for Chaldean 600 B.C. tells (mounds) near the Habur and Jaghjagha rivers. To her consternation, Mrs. Mallowan was drafted as a gynecologist by the Arab women. Reports amateur gynecologist Mallowan: "The commonest gesture is an expressive rubbing of the abdomen. This has one of two meanings: a) acute indigestion, b) a complaint of sterility. Bicarbonate of soda does excellent work in the first case and has attained a somewhat surprising reputation in the second...
...group, headed by Emanuel. His right-hand man, president and production boss of AVCO and board chairman of many of the other companies, is Irving Brown Babcock, 55, who learned his production know-how in 20 years at General Motors, was a G.M. vice president and head of its truck division until he joined AVCO a year and a half ago. Babcock's right-hand men are Executive Vice President William F. Wise, who came from Excello Corp. and Republic Products Corp.; manufacturing Vice President Carl H. Kindl, who came by way of National Cash Register...
...Gags. Phase 1 was a six-month whirl through the circulation and advertising departments of his father's Sun. Husky, willing Field IV started on a delivery truck, learned about street sales, home sales, customer complaints against carrier boys, sat around drinking with the drivers after work. Using another name (in Chicago, salesmen are not named Marshall Field except as a gag), he sold classified ads over the telephone. Then he took a fast fling at promotion copy and a quick look at the local, national and amusement advertising departments...
...strikes, blinked incredulously at an item last week in their skinny, adless newspapers (see PRESS). It was a short interview with Michael J. Cashal, first vice president of old Dan Tobin's International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which was involved in New York City's walkout of truck drivers (TIME, Sept. 16). Said Brother Cashal: "This strike is a rotten mess...
Then the mess deepened. Some 2,800 drivers and helpers of the United Parcel Service (department-store deliverers, for the most part) walked out in an unauthorized strike. Their complaint: they had not been paid for the time lost because of the general truck strike. Thousands of New Yorkers worried anew about their jobs-which were so closely geared to the wheels within the wheels of those big, loud, messy trucks...