Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destruction is one aim. A guerrilla learns how to derail and wreck trains, blow up tanks, destroy planes on the ground, dynamite bridges. He steals at night into the middle of an enemy motor lorry park, removes sparkplugs, drops an iron bolt into the engine, puts the plug back and steals away with the satisfaction of knowing that the engine will be ruined when someone tries to start it in the morning. Or he drops sugar lumps or pours linseed oil into a gas tank, which will immobilize a car by the time it has run four miles...
...flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent the rest of the day in a third plane...
Having successfully crossed the hurdle of their final exam, 20 undergraduates will receive their certificates early next week from the first Motor Transport course, it was announced yesterday...
...Frances Dodge Johnson, youngest (27) daughter of the late Motor Magnate John F. Dodge, won a court award of a $10,000,000 trust fund, after a two-year family fight. Father Dodge's will provided that $10 million go to her when she reached 25, but her halfbrother, John Duval Dodge, sued to break the will when he found it left him only $150 a month. Members of the family gave him a settlement...
...Department told Ford Motor to get 12,000 or 15,000 women for its giant Willow Run bomber plant, 10% of its ultimate labor force. Ford now employs 28 women at Willow Run, was already training hundreds more for jobs there...