Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Arnstein, Chiang learned the pit falls of the Road: deplorable truck maintenance (sometimes 60% of all units are out of commission); inadequate roadside repair shops, and no gas depots; incompetent loading; unskilled, undisciplined grafting drivers (1,300 trucks have been wrecked since the Road was opened two and a half years ago); too many time-eating customs inspections en route; no authoritative, centralized control...
...some of the motormakers, there was a silver lining to OPM's order: truck production was to be increased by about 200,000 units (to 1,189,000 for the model year that began Aug. 1). Manufacturers of heavy and medium trucks were to get A-3 priorities on materials (with a careful check to see that materials went into trucks, not passenger cars). But this same priority rating has not saved railroad-car builders from having to curtail production for lack of steel...
Meeting. In Tampa, an auto driven by one Luciano Rodriguez collided with a truck driven by another Luciano Rodriguez...
Result: ten college girls and eight boys last week were hacking their way, with axes, brush hooks and mattocks, up a wooded mountainside, building a truck trail for fire fighting, clearing the way to a new mountain park where Wyoming Valley coal miners might go to picnic and play. The Valley was thoroughly mystified. So were some 40 other U.S. communities where 800 high-school and college students set up similar work camps this summer and paid $50 to $100 each for a chance to do constructive work...
Four days later, Francisco Arvallo, a peddler, driving along the same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead...