Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the refinery the dead peopled the fields in attitudes of grotesque helplessness. The wounded lay amid the still burning wreckage of smashed German motor columns; they were so many that there was no way to evacuate them. On the roads the prisoners marched eight abreast in a column a mile long and a Belgian woman danced up & down with her finger across her throat screeching "Kaput Hitler...
...enemy's intentions were clear and frightening: the second column swung west to Chiyang-in the rear of the Chinese troops which had been massed to check the drive. With almost no motor transport, the Chinese lacked the mobility of the Japs. It was doubtful that they could prevent a junction between the enemy's Shaoyang and Chiyang columns...
After this comes the whirling extractor, which presses water from the washed towels. The final phase of the cycle is the drier, powered by a 10 horsepower electric motor, which revolves and tumbles 100 towels at a time until they are soft...
...priced motor stocks were not the only offenders. The utilities had their inning too. Typical example: one day board rooms buzzed that some "highly favorable news" about Electric Bond & Share would be announced at 1 p.m. Nothing was announced, but the stock shot...
...thirds of all the merchandise freight that enters and leaves Manhattan is carried by trucks. After studying this amazing statistic, and pondering the truck-jammed, gasoline-smelling streets of Manhattan, the Port of New York Authority announced plans for a $2,500,000 Union Motor Truck Terminal...