Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising the Chicago River in my outboard motor boat...
...Radar is also expected to revolutionize peacetime communications and navigation, guiding planes in to fields, ships to safe harbors, motor traffic on highways...
...over-the trucks (their own and the enemy's), any new enemy weapons, for which Intelligence is always on the alert. Enemy vehicles were patched up, sometimes under fire, put to immediate use. Badly smashed cars and half-trucks were restored to useful life by "cannibalizing"-stealing a motor from one corpse, wheels from another, to make a single going machine from several wrecks...
...great-grandson, Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Last week, in a curt communique, the Army announced that Brigadier General Forrest was missing from a raid over Kiel. When last seen, his bomber was spiraling down, still under control, but with one motor smoking and its tail half shot off. Eight parachutes were seen to drop from it; one might have been General Forrest's. If he was not among those saved a great name had died out, for 38-year-old General Forrest was the last of his line...
Strangest was the business of getting around the country. Eire, badly short of coal and gasoline, runs its railroads with only one mainliner a day. It has as few long-distance busses as the land has snakes. For a six-week campaign, motor-driving candidates were doled out eight gallons of gas apiece...