Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is still "curt, clear," but in reference to Death Valley Scotty (March 24) by no means "complete." Banker Gerard has no reason to hope for "a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...
...Texas. It began in 1928, when Texas highways were narrow and motorists found big truck and trailer haulers pushing them right off the road. The State adopted the lowest maximum truckload limit in the U.S.: 7,000 lb. Among growers and shippers in the fertile Rio Grande Valley, rebellion has been popping almost ever since...
...Since Valley crops (oranges, vegetables, grapefruit) have to be moved in a hurry or wither under the hot sun, truckers tried to get by with overloads. But only one highway leads out of the Valley, and weight inspectors had little trouble catching them. In 1939's spring shipping season, this game of hide-&-seek nearly turned into a battle. The inspectors threw up a blockade on the highway, soon had some 50 trucks lined up. The drivers started their engines and pushed ahead, daring the inspectors to get in their way. None...
...next big shipping season the inspectors backed up their blockade with armed highway police, sheriffs, constables, deputies, even a few game wardens. On a peak day they had 100 trucks lined up, 29 drivers in jail, another 30 out on bail. Next day a group of Valley shippers formed the Growers & Shippers Cooperative League* to try to keep their produce moving...
...pleased as Valley shippers at this victory was stocky Ted V. Rodgers, longtime head of the American Trucking Associations, Inc., trade organization and lobby for the U.S. trucking business. In its fight for higher maximum loads the association is having a good year: since Jan. 1 four other States (Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, North Dakota) have upped the limits. Four others (Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, South Dakota) have new laws in the legislative works. But the trucking industry still is hampered by State-to-State differences in maximum loads, maximum sizes, license fees and port-of-entry restrictions...