Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riding in a Mercedes Benz. A two-and-a-half-ton truck followed, with a month's supply of food, quantities of clothing and jewelry...
...ramshackle trucks, coughing asthmatically, clambered on over China's battered, tortuous highways. The truck drivers were young men wearing filthy civilian clothes and speaking a hodgepodge dialect which they hoped was Chinese. They were publicity-shy members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), doing one of the war's toughest jobs. From China last week came the full story of this band of young pacifists...
Battle Broom. The popular belief that the Army throws away a truck when it gets a flat tire may die hard. But the long convoys of mobile maintenance companies, wich followed the U.S. armies, boast that they tidy up a battlefield in two weeks...
...rattling hardware. Replacements arrived, but too slowly. Then Army Service Forces made a deal that produced replacements in France. Within a month after liberation Gnome & Rhone was rebuilding Continental tank motors; Gen eral Motors France was turning out motors for G.M.'s own famed "Six by Six" truck, the workhorse of the Army. Citroen, which had been given a black eye for collaboration, pitched in. Even Renault, whose Paris plant had several times been solemnly pronounced "destroyed" by bombs, had plenty of plant left for Army work...
Busses. General Motors Corp. Truck & Coach Division delivered its first big batch of busses since war began. Seventy-five busses went to Manhattan and Chicago operators. G.M. had orders on hand for 5,632 busses, hopes to deliver 3,575 before...