Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago of Mexican parents. Until 1937 he lived in the jampacked slum hovels (shared by Negroes and Mexicans), just beyond the Santa Fe tracks in Fullerton, Calif, (pop. 10,680). Last March, after six years of farming elsewhere, Alex Bernal came home to Fullerton to manage a truck garden, found trouble as well as work...
Notions. In El Paso, Francisco Vega got 60 days in jail as a smuggler of bobby pins. In Tulare, Calif., Aubrey I. Morris, whose truck hit a tree, got busy picking up 15 tons of buttons...
...frantic call went out to the U.S. Army to send 1,000 soldiers from Fort Dix to help unload. Meanwhile, half a million bushels of tomatoes were in dan ger of rotting on truck, freight car and vine. A volunteer crew of more than 2,000 citizens and servicemen worked over the weekend, saved the waiting truckloads...
...Play. In a little vineyard hidden from German eyes across the Messina Strait, a U.S. battery commander, Lieut. William B. Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into...
...arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally snoots...