Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--Allied troops advanced slowly but steadily on the Egyptian battlefront today, picking their way through deep mine and barbed wire defenses and mopping up isolated Axis units at bayonet point, while protecting Allied fliers claimed 21 more Axis planes shot down, two supply ships sunk and two desert truck caravans scattered...
...Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more, he was on his way to report the Allied occupation of Syria when a truck got out of control and did something no bomb or bullet had been able to do-invalided him home to Australia...
...that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted. In dead silence the four bearded Australians crunched up the bank, walked to a waiting field truck...
Last week in Manhattan conventioning members of the Society of Automotive Engineers inclined to agree with Defense Transport bigwigs from Washington that the ideal U.S. truck of the future may well be as unstreamlined, blunt, durable and efficient as a jeep...
...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...