Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an Army truck near Camp Blanding, Fla., Private "Pop" Johnson tossed a note to any girl it might concern...
...Trucks. Chrysler's Army Truck Proving Ground adjoins the new Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works...
...scattered subjects. . .Crown Princess Juliana halted a New England trip at Montpelier, Vt., went to bed for a few days' rest. . . Out for a spin with Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, the Duke of Kent suddenly wrenched the wheel, slithered off the road, just missed a truck that had turned into his path. . .Ex-King Carol and Elena found Mexico City more responsive than Havana. They gave a party at which Heiress Barbara Hutton and Friend Cary Grant turned...
Watching the new weapons perform last week, remembering that new U.S. tanks carry equally heavy guns and are well armored to boot, civilians asked: why not fight tanks with tanks? Answers: The "destroyers" use standard guns and truck chassis which are easier and cheaper to make than tanks. In some spots they can run rings around lumbering tank formations can be equally effective against enemy troops, truck convoys, fortifications...
Though competitors, three truck manufacturers (White, Diamond T, Autocar) set up a joint purchasing committee to speed their work on 9,347 standardized Army trucks and scout cars. The committee first got subcontractors tooled up without duplicating facilities, now places bulk orders for all materials...