Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces today is Lockheed's twin-tailed P-38 Lightning, which pilots heartily damned three years ago as clumsy and tricky. With plenty of high-altitude performance, the Lightning is now not only untricky, but a speedy, versatile performer, good for dive-bombing and troop-strafing as well as for meet ing the best of enemy fighters...
...busy. It has $600 million worth of unfilled orders for tanks, shells, howitzers, boats, aircraft assemblies and freight cars; it expects its cars to be used again, as in 1942, to transport eight million armed men and 18 million civilians; it may land a Government order for 1,200 troop-sleepers of new design, plus 400 mess cars; and it has ready for peacetime production a new, lightweight, 24-roomette duplex sleeping...
...Rails and Passengers. U.S. population centers are bunched in the Northeast. The Southeast and Southwest have the best climates for training camps. Therefore, reported OWI, troop movements have necessarily been enormous, are now running at the rate of 1,750,000 men a month (exclusive of furloughs). These excursions consume 50% of all Pullman space (and could use 100%). In the last war each U.S. soldier made an average of three moves by rail; in this one a typical soldier makes eight...
When the reviewing party came into the Stadium before the assembled troops, Colonel Wood took the position on the right of Governor Saltonstall. For troop inspection the position of honor went to Cadet Colonel Reynolds...
...Cargoes of today, especially tanks, mobile artillery and aircraft, are harder to handle than cargoes of 1917-18. But the average round trip of freighters between the U.S. and Great Britain has been cut from 83 days then to 65 days now. In 1942 troop ships average a third less time idle or loading in home ports than they...