Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall separating the front and back rooms a ¼ h.p. electric motor runs a fan that cools off the front room. And off the other end of the motor, someone installed a shoe brush with brown polish...
...equipped for offensive action. British matériel is being hurried straight through the Mediterranean. All the while U.S. stuff is trickling in - Tomahawks, Marylands, Chrysler tanks, ammunition, trucks, spare parts. The British will have to try, sooner or later, to open up Tobruk: two-thirds of all the motor transport they had in North Africa were trapped there in the retreat last April...
...World War I, the Quartermaster Corps lost not only its construction job but the job of running the Army's motor transport, which was given to a separate wartime unit. Last week the Munitions Building bristled with reports that that pattern was to be repeated. Scheduled by rumor to take over motor transport and boss it for World War II was no engineer, no soldier, but a tough transportation man: Chicago's John D. (Drive-Ur-Self) Hertz...
...Soybean protein can be made into synthetic wool-like fibers, now being developed for use in auto upholstery by Ford Motor Co. It is warmer than rayon...
...Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar...