Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portable recorder had no battery of its own, had to be plugged into the battery of a truck or a jeep. These vehicles are usually not available for such purposes during a battle...
...Days of Hope. The two TIME & LIFE men arrived at the height of the change. Outgoing roads were dotted with cars hauling out Russian equipment from dismantled plants. The Russians were withdrawing their drilling and refining equipment from the Sinkiang oilfields. The Russian garrison at Hami was departing by truck, in small units. The Russians were removing their autos, spare tires, generators, household goods and furniture. Their Sovintorg had closed all its minor agencies and turned the buildings over to the Chinese Government...
...Haines cutoff was slammed through the wilds this year, now carries some truck traffic. Scheduled to be finished before freeze-up this fall, it shortens the truck haul to Fairbanks by a thousand miles, supplements existing rail and water routes to the interior...
...kept the U.S. rolling for two years. From now on, civilian tire needs must be supplied from new tire manufacture. Estimated needs for the last four months of this year: 9,400,000. Estimated synthetic-tire production: 3,000,000. Deficit: 6,400,000, along with an equally grave truck-tire shortage of 1,500,000. For next year, the prospects are equally black. Until synthetic-tire manufacture catches up with backed-up demand, OPAster Bonnett probably can stretch the skimpy tire supply only by returning to the drastic rationing that followed Pearl Harbor...
...Have no truck with the senseless thing...