Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truck crops...
...napkins. Leftovers from the White House table reappeared disguised as stew, ragout and hash. Scraps that could not be salvaged went to feed the pigs at Washington's six-acre, cooperative Self-Help Farm. White House trash had gone to the metals-salvage campaign, and a Treasury truck stopped weekly to collect old papers...
...ride to the front in a lend-lease U.S. Army scout car, loaded with soldiers and armed with riot guns, and explained that I must not travel at night unarmed: "This is not China. People are unfriendly." An orange glow tinted the sky when we ran into a truck jam and a hubbub of cursing Chinese soldiers. "Six planes incendiarized a town south of the river, and traitors burned the north of the river," an officer explained. In the woods, the tall, straight trees formed pillars in the column of fire, and stood trembling silently for a few moments, then...
...only the gods can say how long U.S. truck tires will last, or whether an early winter will close down on the Great Lakes and divert millions of tons of iron ore to the western railroads...
Several alarms were turned in, some from as far away as DeWelfe Street; and three engine companies, a ladder truck, a rescue company, and a deputy chief were summoned from the Cambridge fire-house at Kirkland and Cambridge Streets...