Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Misses George Hicks, Blue Network war-caster (TIME, June 19), exhaustedly napping by the side of a Normandy road, was about to be tossed into a truck loaded with bodies for burial when he was seen and salvaged by a passing officer...
Moving with the harvest are thousands of workers. Sometimes a man, his wife and a daughter old enough to drive a truck operate a single traveling combine. But other migratory crews are big enough to include a fleet of truckers, factory-trained combine repairmen and rolling cookshacks. Corps of "semi-pro" harvest ers move from field to field "custom combining" the wheat at $3 & up an acre, operating fleets of new, self-propelled combines, each able to cut 50 acres of grain a day. Their work plans are as precise as army logistics; their bookings and daily routings are scheduled...
...Bougainville the hungry Japs back in the jungles had taken to cultivating patches of vegetables. The 13th Air Force, trying to chivvy the Japs down to the beach to fight again, went after these truck gardens...
...again to the nature of the Partisan warfare, the wounded soldier can seldom be transported from the battlefield to the hospital quickly enough. On a truck, a cart, horseback, stretcher or on foot, it takes him anywhere between one week and six weeks to reach his medical destination. He may die or become an invalid for life on the way. It is for this reason that less than 70% of the Partisan wounded ever get fit for the front again...
...They Were. Some of the letter writers: a Buffalo truck driver who had been in the New York National Guard for nine years; a Dartmouth graduate of 21; a 30-year-old Iowa farmer who had been frail and sickly all his life and who had never been away from home overnight before he joined the Army; a hotel manager of 23 who had his own orchestra; an automobile mechanic; a 24-year-old reporter on the Shelby, N.C. Daily Star; a 27-year-old employe of the National Shawmut Bank in Boston; a 24-year-old fur worker from...