Word: hotbox
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...Smoke from the hotbox eddied beneath the locomotive. The Great Northern's west bound Empire Builder, pounding hard for lost time in North Dakota's bronzed wheat lands, ground to an emergency stop just beyond Michigan City. A few miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...
...about the unit number, base and other matters. The commandant follows up by threatening to shoot Captain Spencer unless the surprised sergeant spills some more. The sergeant spills. In another part of the camp, another sergeant is getting the reverse treatment: after a scary but harmless session in a hotbox cell, he is lured into blabbing by kindness and good food. Soon the commandant knows the bomber unit's specialty, range, materiel, and the fact that it plans a major raid within 24 hours...
Reporters come in fresh from planes and landing craft, the dust of Normandy still on them. As they sit down at a typewriter, you notice that they look more healthy than the people who have worked in this hotbox since Dday. . . . There are no filing cabinets down here, no desks, just a long table ringed with typewriters. There aren't enough chairs. It's a triumph of cooperation between the American networks that no man has yet been forced to write his copy standing...
...soon pay for itself. Hitherto, train crews could communicate with one another only by stopping the train, sending a crew member trudging the whole stretch of the freight. Such necessary, time-consuming stops are frequent. On last week's test run four important train messages, one reporting a hotbox, were relayed from cab to caboose. Without radio the trainmen figure it would have taken them three hours to get the message back, meantime delaying other trains behind them...
...fringes of Empress Augusta Bay U.S. marines and soldiers killed more Japs, expanded their positions. But the week's most spectacular killing of Japs in the Solomons theater took place many miles from Bougainville's steaming, hotbox jungle...