Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers (The Last Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop to fix up a flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle's rusty And I don't know but what...
...British at their Habbannia airport. German cadres of officers headed Iraqi troops for new infantry attacks near Basra. The British counter-bombed the Luftwaffe bases. The Fleet Air Arm planes flew 160 miles up the Tigris to bomb oil tanks at Amarah. R.A.F. fliers caught convoys of French motor trucks carrying Arab volunteers from Syria to Iraq...
Intercoastal tankers carry over 90% of all the oil consumed on the U.S.'s Atlantic seaboard, which is nearly half the U.S. market for motor fuel. The 25 tankers withdrawn this week normally carried 100,000 barrels from the Gulf to Eastern cities every day. When the second 25 follow soon, the seaboard oil stringency will be acute. Already Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) has begun to convert part of its great Bayway (N.J.) refinery to burn coal instead of oil. This week Socony announced it would follow suit, and that it had already converted the heating system...
Surrendering the city to avoid bombing, the small Greek garrison and most of the population moved inland to the hills to think things over. While the Italians were still trying to coax them out with ultimatums, the German occupation force of three arrived by motor launch, bowed politely out when they found the small end of the Axis in possession. Next day the Greeks capitulated finally and the Italians made sure of their prize with three infantry battalions...
Headache. In Philadelphia, Detective Clifford Del Rossi looked over the headache machine which he found smoking in the home of Mrs. Pearl Haines, Negro. Inside the plaster-sheathed contraption, for which Mrs. Haines paid $5, he found: an alarm clock, a thermometer, an electric motor operating a glass-encased eggbeater...