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Last week in Manhattan conventioning members of the Society of Automotive Engineers inclined to agree with Defense Transport bigwigs from Washington that the ideal U.S. truck of the future may well be as unstreamlined, blunt, durable and efficient as a jeep...
Till Death Us Do Part. In Cairo, on complaint of a landlord, a U.S. Army officer was arrested for driving his jeep upstairs to his second-floor apartment every night...
...door open, Belden went along into Burma. When he reached Maymyo he found two other members of the TIME & LIFE News Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung. (It's a habit with him; he's been in the thick of the fighting of almost every critical campaign since China was invaded...
Quacking taxis waddled and pushed. A scarlet bus snorted. Bicycles got in everybody's way. A scrofulous old horse and barouche tangled with an American jeep. Bobbies waved their arms, even raised their voices...
...Private Hammond symbolically went free in a jeep, the townspeople cheered. He still awaited the disciplinary verdict of Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz...