Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through a millennium and a half Rome has known many a German master. Now, as the bloody battle of Italy moves up from the south, Nazi tanks and cannon rumble not far from the Forum, Colosseum and Pantheon. Truck convoys roll by the churches, palaces and museums where the sculptures of the Caesars, the frescoes of the Renaissance are stored...
...Less elastic and flexible than natural rubber, synthetic treads crack, chip and separate more quickly, have poor resistance to heat. In truck tires, even when mixed with 20-30% of natural rubber, synthetic rubber heats up badly, has a record of frequent blowouts...
...Mussolini, the proletarian, marched on Rome in 1922, Carlo Sforza, the aristocrat, 17th count of a venerable line, was Italian Ambassador in Paris. He had reached that post after diplomatic service from London to China and a spell as Foreign Minister. With the Blackshirt government he would have no truck. He resigned as Ambassador, returned to Rome, denounced Fascismo and its dangerous "adventurers" from his seat in the Senate. The Duce said that he could have twelve bullets put into Count Sforza. The Count replied that political murder was inadvisable. But the time came, during the aftermath of the Matteotti...
...time for General Clark to confer with General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery of Britain's dashing Eighth Army. Below the Sorrentine heights, perhaps in General Clark's office-truck headquarters, the American and Briton...
...band down and back and you have to give them two meals. You got to have a hall or a park. You got to worry about transportation of all the instruments which are a lot more than a jazz band. You got to hire a truck. You got to insure them instruments. Then you got workmen's compensation. It's a lot of headaches...