Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Army's hard-bitten infantry outfits this would have been a breeze. To the truck drivers, clerks, typists, mechanics of the 110th it was no such thing. But the General had spoken...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...
Friends of the Governor said he plans to make his entry into Washington, after an official canvass on July 14, in typical O'Daniel style, escorted by his dome-topped sound truck (a replica of Texas' Capitol), his famed string band, and Texas Rose to sing the Governor's song, Beautiful Texas. Along the way, he expects to stop in Kansas, where he grew up, at Malta, Ohio, where he was born...
...voice was a igman industry committee, to be set up in accordance with the new methods of reorganized OPM (TIME, June 30). OPM asked for nominations, got eleven representing truck and automakers,* will get eight more representing parts makers. Warned OPM, "We don't want any stuffed shirts, or men who won't work like hell. We want the best...
...solitary Japanese boy on the U.S. West Coast, to serve as houseboy, to hoe fields of Japanese truck gardeners, to wait on table, to be a hotel busboy, gave him a hard core under the candid and mannerly exterior; certainly it taught him that there was only himself to fend for himself...