Word: jeeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pots of Pasta. Like the Jeep, Libbey-Owens-Ford glass and Toledo Scales, Mike Di Salle is a made-in-Toledo product. He was born in a tenement in Manhattan's Little Italy, but when he was three his parents, Anthony and Assunda, moved to Toledo. In those days, the Di Salle family (expanded by three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots...
...corporal, already hit, was riding in a jeep trailer. An infantryman yelled: "Get out, you guys, and fight for your lives!" Weaponless and unable to walk, the corporal remembered crawling up on a truck loaded with wounded...
...boom in helicopters was set off by their breathtaking rescue work in Korea. In eight months, the "flying egg beaters" plucked 1,700 wounded and stranded men off the battlefield, saving them from death or capture. Commanding officers have found helicopters a smooth, swift substitute for the jolting jeep for front-line tours. Last week the helicopters found another customer. The Army, hitherto restricted to small craft (under 4,000 pounds), got permission to fly the big copters, will form transport companies with 23 helicopters each, specially equipped to carry troops in amphibious, mountain and jungle warfare...
...already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially christened the T-41 the "Walker Bulldog," in honor of the late General Walton ("Little Bulldog") Walker, the Eighth Army's commander, who died in a jeep accident in Korea. Collins, admitting that the first U.S. light tanks in Korea had been unable to stand up to the Russian T-34 medium tanks, asserted flatly: "I can assure you this little baby will be able...
...maneuvers near Istanbul, Yamut asked American advisers to show his officers what jeeps, trucks and tanks could do in the rough terrain. He followed the lead jeep as it bounced and slushed through brush, forests and mud hills. Not satisfied to allow his general officers to stand around observing, he herded them into other jeeps or tanks and sent them careering in the dust and mud until they were so dirty the red stripes on their uniform trousers were hardly visible. Next day he sent the shocked generals slithering through sandy terrain in the same jeeps. A few vehicles turned...