Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Hills of Home. The fields between New England's stone walls were still lush and green. The salt smell of the sea still blew in from every coast. Highways still boasted their gaudy billboards; they ran past barns painted with baking powder ads and signposts cluttered with the...
U.S. planes swooped over Jap prison stockades to drop food and supplies. U.S. trucks and cars wheeled into prison compounds to pick up bony, half-naked men. Aboard U.S. transports and hospital ships they were bathed, fed, clothed, given medical treatment. Then, like men awakened from nightmares, they talked.
As to what products Jahco might eventually make, Bill Jack gave no hint. Associates gossiped about electric motors and ball bearings, which Jahco made during the war, or an engine for light cars, like the one it had been developing for the Army.
Undaunted, Fireman Corporal Harry Slick loaded 21 freight cars with 1,000 tons of supplies, including high-octane gasoline and explosives, and set off northward. Coming down a mountain, the throttle broke and the brakes refused to grab. Corporal Slick was doing 90 m.p.h. when he reached the flat again...
Boxed truck parts were swung ashore at the Gulf, assembled into trucks on the spot and filled with supplies. Frequently the supply trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of...