Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extinct NDAC, the first defense organization set up by the President in May 1940. Out of a job (unless he accepts a post under Eastman) was Rail Coordinator Ralph Budd, exponent for 19 months of the theory that the railroads are ready. ODT's Eastman will boss rail, motor, inland waterway, coastal & intercoastal transport, and pipelines...
...replete with technical impossibilities, which OPM was quick to point out. It also contained a practical idea-the idea of conversion-about which OPM did nothing. Wrote Walter Lippmann eleven months later: "That piece of Philistinism cost us not merely an unconscionable delay in using the resources of the motor industry but it cost us the enthusiastic participation of labor in national defense...
Fast-moving, hard-driving A. W. S. Herrington bought the truck division of near-bankrupt Marmon Motor Car in 1931, settled down in Indianapolis. A Motor Transport Corps captain in World War I, Herrington knows trucks and tanks inside & out. He once worked for Motorcycle Makers Harley-Davidson, spent seven years as transportation engineer with the Army and Marine Corps...
...even in New England and New Jersey, the program was confused, uncoordinated. In isolated communities, far from dense, industrial targets, women drove furiously around in motor caravans, practiced jumping into fire nets. Energy was scattered in all directions. Unwieldy and sometimes senseless organizations were...
Skeleton-thin (760 mi. long, 30 to 150 mi. wide) Baja California, like the west coast of Mexico proper, has no adequate Pacific defenses. Its once bootleg-whiskey-rich northern town of Ensenada is a scant 8 1 motor miles from the U.S. naval base at San Diego. The area is extremely vulnerable, despite its deserts and mountains...