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Word: motoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Incident Becomes a Crisis | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...practically all river transport around Shwebo had been sunk under orders, and as the railway was hopelessly jammed with refugees and later with some wounded and stranded, we formed a motor column composed of 14 jeeps, four sedans and about ten trucks, planning to go along by cart tracks as far as possible, then to walk. There was no other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MARCH OF THE 400 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...force of 15,000 men banded together, cut the short-cut railroad to the Russian front, via Bulgaria, in five places and attacked two Nazi troop trains, leaving 225 dead & dying Germans. From crag tops they rolled huge boulders down into narrow bends, stopped traffic along the only motor road to Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE BALKANS: Free Men | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...just as easy to devise as the gyp itself. A requirement that all X-card holders obtain books of coupons, each worth a definite number of gallons, would solve the riddle. There need be no limit on the number of tickets a person may have, but every purchase of motor fuel must be accompanied by an exchange of coupons. Total sales for each station could then be easily checked against the number of coupons clipped. Some such arrangement, if adopted, would mean that New England's chances of having gas next fall need not depend on the activities of petty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ration Racket | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

Four times as many motor trucks can be shipped to U.S. armed forces in Australia as are now being shipped, in the same num-ber of vessels. This result could be achieved by shipping the trucks "CKD" (completely knocked down) instead of to the Army's present specifications, which insist that the trucks be practically ready to roll. Boxes containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wasted Cubic | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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