Word: tractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a two-star general in MacArthur's theater: "In this war there are two items of army equipment which should be memorialized in marble-the tractor and the jeep." Said the Army Engineers' Chief, Major General Eugene Reybold: "Victory seems to favor the side with the greater ability to move dirt...
...Tractor War. These flat statements from two working generals, who have seen the tractor fight the war all over the world, underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...
Graduated from training, WACs now fill 239 different kinds of.jobs and in some cases have filled them better than men. Among other things, WACs are opticians, surgical technicians, chemists, surveyors, electricians, radio repairmen, control-tower operators, boiler inspectors, riveters, welders, tractor mechanics, balloon-gas handlers, dog trainers...
...million different items, ships out nine tons of aviation supplies (not including food) a month per pilot overseas. A.S.C.'s enterprises encircle the globe, are frequently masterpieces of improvisation. In New Guinea the "Thick & Thin Lumber Co.," created from a wrecked plane, two wrecked trucks, a worn-out tractor and machinery from an abandoned copper mine, turned out finished lumber by board-foot thousands...
...Fireman First Class Aurelio Tassone of Milford, Mass. was roaring along on his 20-ton 'dozer when he spotted an enemy strongpoint. Skirting the coconut-logged bunker, he came at it from the rear. Bullets banged off the big blade which he had raised as a shield. The tractor rolled on like its armored offspring, the tank...