Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailors stationed at a big new naval base have changed the islands' face and habits. The change was most apparent in the jeeps and trucks that chugged over roads once sacred to the horse and the bicycle. It had taken a special act of the Assembly to admit motor vehicles; Bermuda's permanent residents feared that the noisome automobile was there to stay...
...departure from Vyazma was evidently imposed on the Germans. The Russians claimed to have found in the town 83 tanks, 69 guns, 222 machine guns, 565 trucks and tractors, 57 locomotives, 515 wagons. The Germans admitted leaving 59 burned-out broad-gauge locomotives, two motor vehicle "cemeteries" and 200 destroyed freight cars-all said to be Russian...
Munich is Naziism's birthplace and an old city of art treasures and Nazi Party shrines. But in its suburbs are Messerschmitt plane factories, the Bayerische Motorenwerke (aircraft engines and motor vehicles), many other war factories. In their fifth raid on the Bavarian capital, the R.A.F. shattered its museums and arms industries alike...
...city where, in the heyday of the Nazi Party's rise to world power, the Auslandsdeutschen-Germans living abroad-met each year to plan their fifth-column tactics. Last week a half hour's raid left extensive areas of Stuttgart afire, presumably including the Daimler-Benz motor plants, the Bosch ignition works, the mass-production auto factory of Opel and many other war-important industries...
Soon began the famous retreat with Stilwell (TIME, June 1). It was a strange group-26 Americans, 13 British, 16 Chinese, two doctors, seven Quaker ambulance drivers, 19 Kachin, Karen and Burmese nurses, and an assortment of some 30 servants and refugees. They went first by motor transport into a jungle. Their path crossed elephant trails until they came to a chasm bridged only by a rope suspension which could carry nothing heavier than jeeps. (Belden had one.) General Stilwell ordered everyone to strip unnecessary paraphernalia so as to be able to walk. In the weeds a pile of elegant...