Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Design for Decision. Destruction requires a mountain of supplies, and the Allied supply distribution system was well in hand. The famed Red Ball truck route across France was out of operation last week, because a more efficient rail web was now in service. While waiting for Antwerp to reach top unloading capacity, the Allies had the Dutch harbor of Flushing. They had also restored Le Havre and Rouen. If there are any more shortages, it will be because of inept estimates or because of short shipments from the home front. As General Eisenhower put it more delicately at a press...
Promptly at 3, Smodlaka's black limousine drew up. Behind it a truck disgorged 35 Partisan soldiers, each with Tommy...
Incensed. In Detroit, William R. Pace Jr. explained to a traffic-court judge that the smell of a peeled orange so outraged him that he stomped out of his girl's parlor to his car, later crashed blindly into a truck driven by one John Odor...
...Rocket Coast. Hollanders on liberated Walcheren island told of the German's careful guarding of V-2 launchings; the enemy hustled all civilians indoors when rockets were brought to the island on long, covered truck trailers. Related the Dutch: sometimes the V-2s soared in half-circles before being sent away...
Cowboy. Idaho's next Senator is Glenn Hearst Taylor, 40, who won in his third try for office. The first time (1940), Cowboy Glenn toured the state with a blaring sound truck, lost. Second time (1942), he crooned and strummed his way around on a big black horse named "Nig," lost again. This year, after working in a San Francisco war plant, he turned up in Idaho in a sedate grey Homburg and a conservative business suit. That...