Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirds of all the merchandise freight that enters and leaves Manhattan is carried by trucks. After studying this amazing statistic, and pondering the truck-jammed, gasoline-smelling streets of Manhattan, the Port of New York Authority announced plans for a $2,500,000 Union Motor Truck Terminal...
...solid city block, will be built near the Manhattan end of the Holland Tunnel as soon as construction materials are available. It will be designed to handle as much as 2,000 tons of cargo a day. Two important advantages : 1) quick interchange of freight between over-the-road trucks and local delivery; 2) a wide, flat roof capable of parking 128 truck-trailers that otherwise would block narrow city streets between trips...
...Army, foreseeing a shortage of 80,000 heavy tires, talked nervously of cutting back the already-reduced truck program of 600,000 trucks...
Ragtag Army. The 3,000 who remained were a ragtag little army of cooks, truck drivers, sailors, punishment platoons. But their commander was a man obsessed: tall, grey Colonel Andreas von Auloch. He had been at Stalingrad, had seen the Russians turn that siege to victory. Captured Germans said he was a madman, added that his wife and children had been killed in a Berlin bombing...
Outblitzed, Bewildered. Ike Eisenhower's push had developed faster than the Germans had reckoned. Omar Bradley's tankmen and truck-borne infantry -a new-formed Third Army-had stunned the enemy again & again with swift, piercing strokes...