Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across an open space at the bustling Norfolk Naval Air Station moved a truck with six small trailers, each carrying four depth charges ready to be loaded into the waiting anti-submarine patrol planes. Suddenly a little blaze sprang up on one of the trailers. A station fire engine dashed up in a brave, hopeless effort to halt the fire. But before it could go into action the 24 cordite-loaded charges exploded like a salvo of blockbusters in a blinding flash and shattering concussion. The toll: 25 dead*; 249 injured. The blast and fire wrecked a hangar and eight...
...take a long time, the way things move over here. These Chinese tiekle me to death. They walk down the streets and roads, never moving for a truck or jeep. . . . No one makes a move to help a guy who has been hurt or killed because, if you do, you have to help his whole family. Consequently traffic victims just lie there and die. . . . Got a couple of combat missions but they were so easy I didn't even want to count them...
...additional equipment, Chris Jensen ransacked machine shops and railroad yards, came up with many a prize. Example: a White truck on railroad wheels, now used as a Port Cargill switch engine. To get water for launching, a pool 20 ft. deep was dredged at Port Cargill, and a 9-ft. channel was dredged all the way to the Mississippi...
...Lidice, the Czech mining village whose male population was executed by the Nazis, in revenge for the killing of "Hangman" Heydrich. Out of all the uneasy efforts to commemorate that grim tragedy, The Silent Village emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with disgust, some with resignation, all quietly. The luckless bravery of the conquered is shown...
...Equipment companies are not yet making what farmers consider the most essential postwar unit of all: a farm passenger car. What farmers want is "a decent-looking vehicle" that can double as a "sparking" place for the young folks and a light truck for transporting eggs, milk...