Word: jeep
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...jeep has its good points: to turn around, it simply unhitches its cars, jumps off the track, bumps down the length of the train, and jiggles onto the track again...
...mechanical detail never has been licked: the one-ton jeep locomotives have no effective brakes. Pushed by a weight many times greater than its own, one jeep plowed into a bullock standing listlessly on the tracks, was telescoped into junk by the cars behind and tossed up on top of a boxcar. So far, ten jeeps have been wrecked. Drivers have escaped injury by leaping clear...
...rail line had been cut and was under enemy fire at some points; tracks were ripped up and bridges torn down. But there were boxcars, flatcars, and all other essentials except engines, which the Japs were using for machine-gun nests. Simply by switching wheels, G.I. railroadmen created the jeep locomotive and started to roll...
...going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...
Then one night several weeks ago a jeep crashed to a halt on a street in Rome. Police pulled a Canadian soldier out of the car. He was a deserter, armed with a pistol stolen from an American MP. Police stood guard over the jeep. When another Canadian and a U.S. sergeant showed up and tried to recover the jeep at gunpoint, the guards nabbed them. That was a break which U.S. Lieut. Colonel John R. Pollock, Allied regional director of public safety, had been hoping...