Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the troops the correspondents on each side were subject to capture, killing (by decision of an umpire). Reckless "bravery" did not pay. If captured, pressmen were trucked away to the enemy's prison camp, often 200 miles behind the lines, sometimes a full day's drive on truck-blocked roads. They were not released for 24 hours lest they return to the action and give useful information to their side. Amid the continual surprises of open warfare reporters spent half their time fleeing over back roads to escape capture by unexpected parties of the enemy...
...famous story is told of a truck-driver, halted by an imperious wave of the Kittredge cane one morning who leaned out of his cab and shouted, "Hey, Santa Claus, where do you think you're going...
...addition to racketeering, jurisdictional fights have resulted in oppressive restraints on U.S. industry. Building-trade unions have blocked improved methods of construction. Hod carriers and operating engineers have prevented the use of ready-mixed concrete and mechanical truck mixers. Carpenters have fought the introduction of prefabricated parts. Such obstructions have been justified by A.F. of L. leaders on the ground that they must protect their members from technological unemployment. But there is more than a suspicion that A.F. of L. leaders, in many cases, are more concerned about their own jobs than their men's. A shift in methods...
...camp served a dual purpose in the military life of Harvard's future Field Artillery officers. First it taught them how to fire guns, how to hit a target with a 75 shell, how to camoflage a truck, and 101 other little tricks of How to Make People Sore and Influence Enemies...
...students so far have applied for work in such varied fields as singing, dance band work, monologuists, office work, stenography, and blood donors. Also, housepainting, clothes-pressing, photography, bill collecting, ushering, truck driving, and baby-tending. Large numbers have applied for odd-job chore work, chauffeuring, for retail sales work, and for typing...