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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, December 4 CBS PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.*). "Saturday Adoption." A new drama, by Ron Cowen (Summertree), about a white college student who becomes a volunteer tutor to a grade school Negro. Directed by Delbert Mann...
...Identify White Fang...
...highways will benefit from better sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected to triple...
More to Divide. The No. 1 producer of heavy-duty trucks, International Harvester, is likely to retain its third place in total volume (1967 sales: 167,000 units), ahead of Dodge (141,000), Kaiser Jeep (116,000), CMC (114,000), White Truck (24,000), Mack (16,000) and FWD (1,200). These nine manufacturers accounted for almost all of the 1,500,000 trucks sold in the U.S. last year, dividing a $3.6 billion market among themselves...
More and more of the heavier trucks are diesel-powered. At White Truck, for example, more than 80% of this year's production had diesel engines, compared with only 55% in 1960. Meanwhile, Ford, General Motors and International Harvester are working on turbine-powered trucks that would be feasible on turnpikes. The turbine consumes fuel completely and quietly, producing a low noise level and nontoxic exhaust. But since its high fuel consumption makes the turbine-truck economical only at full throttle, the rigs would have to drop the trailers at terminals just off the expressway. From those terminals, conventional...