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Next day, the hottest day in two years (97°), the trucks rumbled off, crossed the river, stopped beyond in the Arkansas flats, let all but the drivers out. Five miles ahead the drivers stopped, got out, started to march. Through the morning and afternoon, the trucks were leapfrogged, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yoo-Hoo! | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Dusty trucks, with drivers' rifles in holsters alongside the steering wheels, rumbled along rocky roads and through field and wood without traffic tie-ups. Supply functioned without a major hitch. Motorcycle dispatch riders, powdered with dust that turned their blue denim white, clattered into well-hidden command posts with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Test in the Field | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Finally, one day last week, the B-19 was ready to roll. In Douglas Aircraft Co.'s huge hangar alongside the field at Santa Monica, Calif., workmen had taken down the curtain behind which they had riveted and shaped her body these past three years. The doors rumbled open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: B-19 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

The Stukas swooped across the Aegean skies like dark, dreadful birds, but they dropped no bombs on the monks of Mount Athos. The motorized Nazi hordes rumbled across the Salonikan peninsula, but they did not invade its 40-mile-long eastern cape where the holy and historic Mount towers in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOUNT ATHOS: Failing Light | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Earth Moved | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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