1984. Its car body was built for 125 ton intermediate trucks but was produced with 100 ton intermediate trucks and 70 to end trucks. The GBRX 1984 had the capability to load 40' international containers in all 5 wells and 40' or 45' international containers on top. Tare weight was 217,300 pounds and the load limit per well was 90,000 pounds.
St. Louis, MO (3-26-84/01): Globe to Start Afternoon Paper - Jeff and Debbie Gluck announce plans to start publishing a new afternoon newspaper in St. Louis. The paper will be a separate paper from the globe with a new name and format to be decided. It should publication in 3 weeks.
Avis Buttons with the slogan "We Try Harder" in many languages is displayed at the Avis rent-a-car booth at the Modern Living Show by Miss Karen Nelson.
'Space Twins' Toni Dolan and Caralie Hall decorate an air conditioner condensing unit at the Space Conditioning, Inc., booth at the Modern Living Show.
Name Game Winner - Jesse Johnson (left) a TWA representative, gives name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville, IL her prize... two tickets for airline flight. She is thinking of going to Atlanta.
Name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville gets her prize, two tickets for a TWA flight, from Jesse Johnson, a TWA representative.
A group of city officials and civic leaders were at the preview of the Globe-Democrat Safety Lane yesterday morning. They were photographed in the Safety Lane just before the first car was officially tested. They included Thomas N. Dystart, president, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; Walter Ziegenbein, Bendix Products Corporation; Edwin A. Kayser, president, St. Louis Safety Council; R. E. Matthews, manager of the road service department, Automobile Club of Missouri; Capt. Loepker, commanding officer of the Traffic Division of the Police Department; E. Lansing Ray, president of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; T. E. Doll, Borbein-Young & Co.; Milton B. Strauss, president of the Greater St. Louis Automotive Association, Inc; Fire Chief John J. O'Boyle; George Niekamp of Beck & Corbitt; Joseph A. Schlecht, secretary and manager of the Greater St. Louis Automotive Association, Inc; Alfred Jordan of Hadley Vocational School; Joseph Feuchter, charge of vehicles, Streets and Sewers Division; A. W. Tilley, Bendix Products Corporation; City Judge Joseph Simpson; F. J. Jeffery, assistant superintendent, Board of Education, and Joe Haenny of the Bendix Products Corporation.
The Globe-Democrat's high school athletes of 1974-75 gathered recently to swap stories and talk of future plans. They are (from left) Jerome Heavens of Assumption (football), Hazelwood East's Al Olmstead (baseball), Triad's Brad Droy (basketball) and Sumner's Oscar Harvey (track).
Spectators look at a cornice (circle) which tore loose Tuesday from the Holland Building, 211 North 7th St. In closeup of the area at right, workmen dislodge the crumbling section of terra cotta with a crowbar. A crowd of several hundred watched as the section shattered on the street without doing any substantial damage.