Word: milkmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among light trucks, Divco-Twin, unknown until three or four years ago, is breaking records with slow, low-powered, boxlike models for milkmen, bakery routes. This year's Divco line includes a refrigerated truck. Willys '41s look like converted passenger models, as do Hudson and Buick. Studebaker pioneered cab-over-engine design in 1937. It sold thousands of trucks to the Allies last winter. Tailing the procession are the buglike, tiny Crosley panel deliveries and pickups. Chief selling point: cent-a-mile operation...
...Ground, the British tightened their defenses as the sky war raged on. They arrested scores of persons suspected of showing light signals to guide Nazi raiders.* They tested the Home Guard's vigilance by turning loose fake parachutists, secret agents disguised as clergymen, tourists, milkmen, postmen, women, bummers. One "businessman" was detected when he asked the way of a wary countrywoman, a "girl" by the masculine way he handled a cigaret...