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...tunnels themselves are fairly high and well lighted, and even the most staid observer would be forgiven a pardonable desire to be turned loose here underground with a Jeep. Only the passage of a occasional food cart breaks the cool silence of the tunnels, although several hundred unwitting students may be tramping overhead...

Author: By Colin F. N. irving, | Title: University Food System Feeds 5700 Daily | 1/6/1943 | See Source »

...chief job was to provide entertainment for some of the loneliest men on earth. With a 16-mm. projector and a few reels of antediluvian film, Jimmy borrowed a jeep (which now is practically his personal property), started on a series of one-night stands at the various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Jim | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pile Up the Scrap | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

...Whitey") McNair, ground forces chief who came down from Washington to see part of the finale in a jeep: "Yes, I have seen combat-worthy units on these maneuvers. Not all of them are combat worthy, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...found a captain and a soldier in a jeep taking breakfast to an outpost of four soldiers five miles away. "I think," said the General, "he should have been inspecting his command and had that task accomplished by one of the cooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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