Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal...
...performance of enemy tanks and motor vehicles was astoundingly good...
China suffered from a creeping paralysis. The Jap invader had long ago gobbled up most of her railways. Now her unreplenished fleet of motor trucks, 15,000 strong two years ago, had worn down to a wheezy 5,000 machines, and many of these were idle for lack of spare parts. More than ever, China traveled and hauled by foot, mule and human carrier. More than ever, the lack of mobility hobbled her armies, sharpened the peril of famine, loosened the bonds of central government...
...coming off the production line is the company's XR-4. By fall this will be replaced by a later, heavier-load-carrying model, the XR5 Powered by a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney motor, the XR5 carries a pilot and passenger in tandem, flies faster than 110 miles an hour, has a range of some 400 miles...
Passengers were devil-may-care businessmen or vacationers. Baker kept his line going by doing everything himself. When a passenger arrived at the field George stopped sweeping up the hangar and tinkered with the motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...