Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out, and the crowd almost killed itself laughing. Crowds along the streets politely applauded the Admiral. But they squealed at the sight of Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, giggled and waved as a 17-year-old marine winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor bawled from a jeep: "Come and kiss me, girls...
...Paris a man's suit cost $500. A correspondent stopped to get his jeep repaired in Neufchâteau. The garage operator, a brawny Frenchwoman, immediately questioned him about American soldiers sleeping with German girls. "C'est incroyable" she mourned. "Yes, some French girls slept with Germans when they were here. But only bad girls. We do not understand why you Americans do it. You are not bad but you still sleep with Germans." An American sergeant lounged at a nearby corner watching the thin traffic in Neufchâteau's one big street; he turned loose...
...rule, they went on a rousing rampage. In Saigon they shot up homes, burned the market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...
...salutes were exchanged as the Japanese Deputy Chief of Staff in China, Major General Takeo Imai, his gloved hand resting on the jeweled hilt of his oversize samurai sword, stepped stiffly into a Chinese Army jeep. His six aides and their luggage (briefcases, tins of tea, fruit juices, U.S. crabmeat) followed...
Despite the knocks (including some from tractor manufacturers John Deere Tractor Co. and International Harvester), Willys went right ahead with its plan to make the U.S. farmer jeep-conscious. As a stunt, five of the jeeps were flown across country in a Consolidated Vultee Model 39 cargo plane, put down in Los Angeles (see cut) for more publicity...