Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon; 4) use of the Road's limited capacity to haul luxuries, to be bootlegged at fantastic prices...
...Chinese admitted setting up supply dumps close within their border, far from points of need. They tactfully avoided saying that, before Pearl Harbor, China feared Anglo-American appeasement of Japan with the possible reclosing of ,the Burma Road, as in the summer of 1940. Therefore they had hastened to haul as much material as possible from Burma to safe points under their own flag...
Almost unknown to U.S. citizens, M-H nevertheless is the king of its field: the world's most enormous trucks, all-wheel drive, extra-heavy duty, able to haul almost anything almost anywhere. Only ten years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats...
...week's end the British were getting reinforcements into action. They reported the situation somewhat more in control. The jig was not up yet, by a good haul...
...Pullman tourist sleepers which, minus porters and bedding, will be used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington...