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Word: trailered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into the Funnel | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Rommel Africanus | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Helen Slocum's husband Lawrence delivered new cars on a haul-away trailer out of Detroit ten years ago, and business was terrible. One day she "read in the paper about some boat races, and got to wondering how they hauled these boats around." Later she heard that Yachtsman Russell A. Alger Jr. was going to take 13 new sloops from Detroit to Charlevoix, Mich., asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Helen's Headache | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Animal Kingdom. In Morristown, N.J., a court awarded Frederick and Evelyn Smith $3,792 for damage done to their house. Damagers: a tenant's 200 dogs. In San Diego the Charles E. Smiths heard a scratching at their trailer door, opened it, found the cat they had left two months before in Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...Illinois, the axle load limit is 16,000 lb., over-all length limit for tractor and trailer combination is 35 feet, compared to 18,000 lb. and 40 feet in many other States. Truckers carrying Army shipments-loaded by the Army in sealed trailers and shipped on Government bills of lading-are repeatedly stopped and fined. (They cannot break Army seals to redistribute loads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair-Raising Tales | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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