Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunburned Captain Eric Strologo of His Majesty's Royal Artillery parked his truck in front of British headquarters and went inside. When he returned he found a young Maltese searching the truck for loot. He marched the boy off to the Military Police. They told him it was clearly a case for Maltese civil police. At police headquarters the boy was released, Strologo clapped in jail for unauthorized arrest of a Maltese citizen. That was July 14, 1943. Captain Strologo is still in jail...
...anonymous correspondent: "Truck-driving behind the German lines is now so dangerous that the men get the same allowances as air crews. In addition they have real coffee every...
...Major John W. Brower, Commandant of the Cooks and Bakers School, displayed samples of A, B, C, D, K, Mountain, Jungle, Bail-out, and Life-raft rations. Major Brower and his assistant, Lt. H. C. Gleve, also showed many types of dehydrated foods. Sgt. Edward Mortimer's field kitchen truck supplied, as a concluding feature, a complete supper for all students, which was enjoyed by all, despite Major Brower's announcement that it had been made entirely from dehydrated foods...
Suppressed Desire. In Chicago, Myron Morrison, 14, grabbed the controls of a runaway streetcar when the motorman fainted, shut off the power just as the car headed into a truck, shucked to his admiring passengers: "Shucks, I didn't even get a chance to ring the bell...
...Dplus6 a heavy truck rolled onto the beachhead. Next day its diesel engine kicked over, a generator hummed, and the first direct press message from France was on its way to the U.S. By last week Press Wireless, Inc. was delivering copy in New York about 20 minutes after invasion correspondents had filed it. It was the first time on any front that U.S. war correspondents could communicate directly with their home offices from immediately behind a battle line. There was also a receiving set: newsmen could be paged on the beachhead...