Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
...Then, when Army Quartermaster Corps cast about for a midget reconnaissance car, Joe Frazer saw his chance to cash in on Willys' small-car making. By sweating his engineers and production men Joe Frazer soon had the joy of seeing the Willys car became the Army standard jeep...
With the caution of a baby-show judge, Correspondent Ernie Pyle radioed from Africa that he has found a couple of faults in the Army's favorite vehicle: the jeep...
...hand brake. It's perfectly useless-won't hold at all. And ... I wish they could somehow fix the jeep so that at certain speeds the singing of those heavy tires wouldn't sound like an approaching airplane...
...Except for those two trivial items the jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion. . . . Good Lord, I don't think we could continue the war without...