Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their biggest tasks was surfacing the fields. To get material, they hacked out two coral quarries. To move the coral, they built a smooth three-lane highway that cut a five-hour haul to 15 minutes. Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...
...tropical rains pelted down, made the ground so slippery that to climb the slightest incline men had to plod up with "herringbone" ski technique, or haul themselves up by thick overhanging vines. Some U.S. units were fighting three or four days from their base; their supplies were brought in by human pack trains-soldiers and Filipino laborers...
Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
Along the highway are blocks of warehouses for storing spare parts; machine shops with facilities to repair or install medium-caliber guns ; an automotive over haul plant which recovers thousands of vehicles from the scrap heap; acres of tank farms (depots); acres of under ground ammunition storage depots; refrigerators for meat, vegetables, fruit to supply the fleet. Now abuilding is a bottling plant with a capacity of 500 cases of soft drinks an hour...
...Haul. Hidden under the edge of a typhoon, the fleet bored in. Halsey sent only part of his forces on the deepest mission-to the Ryukyus, 270 miles south of Japan. Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers from Mitscher's carriers thundered across the islands in four heavy strikes-1,500 sorties...