Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travel (by day or night) is either impossible or unpleasant-by motor car, impossible for lack of gasoline; by train, crowded, dirty and invariably delayed. Hotels are jampacked. (Soldiers are everywhere, some of them on leave to meet their wives or sweethearts in the provincial cities.) Food, of course, is scarce-not so scarce as to be unhealthy or even a serious problem for ordinary people, but scarce enough so one can never forget the subject (a sliver of butter with each meal; perhaps no butter at all would be easier to bear). As for clothes, English women have never...
...nosed through the harbor nets in the Loire estuary under a bright dome of anti-aircraft fire that brought into sharp relief the gaunt lines of her ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every...
There was no doubt that the raid was costly. Dead were well over a hundred valuable Commando-fighters, sunk (according to German claims) were 13 British motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass...
Scottish-American Archie Lochhead, former manager of the Treasury's two-billion-dollar stabilization fund, made every bucketful count for China. As head of Universal, he got good prices (current price, 38? a lb.), bought a thousand motor trucks and countless other items for China, dismantled and shipped whole factories across the Pacific, spent $60,000,000 on American goods. The Corporation sold about 150,000,000 lb. of tung...
...bottlenecks have long been there, but only now are they making men's hair stand on end. The 700,000 U.S. hire motor vehicles which last year carried over 50 billion ton-miles of freight now find about half their loads are war materials (in the case of some trucking companies, it is 90%). And delivery of war materials is recklessly held...