Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...semi-mobile artillery are the newest feature of Mot pulk. Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
...small English town, passers-by gazed politely at big, sauntering black fellows in strange U.S. uniforms, wondered who on earth they were. With equal politeness the Negroes told them: they were American Indians. The first Negro troops ever to land in the tight little isle- two Quartermaster Corps truck companies- they had not yet learned that Jim Crow never got to England...
Meanwhile U.S. farmers have turned gardeners and dairymen in droves. Over the whole countryside big & little gardens have sprouted up, brightly painted cow-barns have been built. Truck farms now total 3,730,000 acres, up 12% over last year, up 30% over the 1931-40 average. Production of sweet corn, green peas and tomatoes is at a new high. Georgia alone has some 30,000 new gardens this year...
...beer & skittles for Fairchild. Products of its nuts & bolts empire must be trucked to its assembly lines. And truck tires are scarce. Artisans trained to work in leisurely style with meticulous care will not adjust themselves to wartime manufacturing tempo. Fairchild argues (in vain) for more wood-butchering, for less craftsmanship...
When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...