Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cart at the next intersection and returned to Manila by jeep. As I write, I hear an occasional rending noise in the distance. I assume it is the opposing forces still clashing with the greatest possible violence...
...Chinese authorities coped with a new problem last week-"jeep girls," a slightly more commercial version of the U.S. bobbysoxer...
...Chungking the U.S. Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...
...Chinese consider jeep girls a national disgrace. One newspaper suggested that they be given medals for bringing in U.S. gold wherewith to balance the national budget...
...most important thing about an amphibious jeep or truck is that it should keep afloat; the next most important, that its ignition system should keep dry. Fortnight ago U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. was permitted to tell how the second requirement has been met in World War II. The electrical parts are painted with a compound known as PiB (protects, insulates batteries), which is brushed or sprayed over the spark plugs, battery terminals and exposed electrical parts. There it dries slowly to produce a highly insulating but flexible film, making the circuits impermeable by water...