Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post: "Thus a noble old phrase like 'bill of lading' has become 'blading.' A fine sonorous mouthful like 'duty outside the continental limits of the United States' is brutally cut down to 'dutout' and a pulse-quickening designation like 'commander escort carrier force, Pacific fleet' becomes a vulgar 'comescarpac,' which sounds like a very nasty medicine. Other words sound like the grunting of very ungracious pigs, such as 'oinc, moinc, soinc,' meaning, respectively, 'officer-in-charge,' 'medical-officer-in-command,' 'supply...
Flying Northwest's cold, snow and fog blanketed route to the Orient will be a new and daring experience for most civilian travelers, but old stuff to Northwest's frostbitten pilots. For Army's Air Transport Command Northwest's pilots have piled up more than 17 million miles of flying north of the U.S. border. Thanks to improved de-icing equipment, they have been able to fly 95% of all ATC's tough north Pacific schedules on time...
Once ashore in that "queer, drear, roasting land," the 30,000 G.I.s of the P.G.C. (which meant Persian Gulf Command in Washington, and People Going Crazy in Iran) pulled off one of the great jobs of the war, the Lend-Lease supplying of the Red Army. They were "a weird, shambling, offbeat outfit" of white and Negro road builders, stevedores, engineers, mechanics and medics. In all their months of labor, from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential...
PERSIAN GULF COMMAND-Joel Sayre -Random House...
...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 Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...