Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the army of the Nile defeated Egypt would soon be lost. Turkey would find the Germans knocking at her back door and, in the absence of the British, would have to kowtow to their proposals. The loss of Turkey would force the British to choose the more direct overland road to Russia in order to establish a common front. This might well be impossible...
...Nobody Buys. Cohen agreed. His part was to be purely financial. He interested the owners of Willys-Overland (Ward Canaday, G. W. Ritter, others) who put up 200,000 shares of Willys stock and $120,000 in cash. Empire Ordnance bought the old Pencoyd works, rebuilt the plant and renovated its machinery. By September the infant company had spent the $120,000, but it still had no contracts. Since the old days, the munitions business had apparently changed...
Some 2,500 jeeps are now in use. The Infantry and the Armored Force are each equipped with about a thousand, while the Cavalry and Field Artillery have another 400. They are part of an original order for 4,500, distributed among the Ford, American Bantam and Willys-Overland factories. Newest contract for 16,000 more is held by Willys-Overland, which is scheduled to deliver the goods in four or five months. Present plans call for 95 jeeps to each Infantry regiment...
...village teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
...dispute at Spicer Manufacturing Corp., makers of truck transmissions. Reason: squabble between A.F. of L. Montagues & C.I.O. Capulets. Because transmissions are the guts of any shaft-driven car, production of combat cars was threatened at the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pa., at Ford, White Motor Co., Willys-Overland...