Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports last week from Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, said that 150 Japanese had surrendered there. Some of them stood beside a road until a U.S. truck gave them a lift to prison camp...
...Japanese seemed also to be building a defense belt beyond the railroad. There was a worse, though still remote possibility: from Loyang, the Japanese might try to push on westward through the famed Tungkwan mountain pass, spill into the loess plain of Shansi. Then even China's truck roads to Russia would be in peril...
...last-minute orders from London was for 2,000 medical kits. A.S.F. men located a cache of them already loaded on a freight train in Kansas City. A.S.F. ordered: take the stuff off the freight, truck it across the city and put it on a fast passenger train. Sixty hours after the rush request, the 2,000 kits were on the eastern seaboard, ready to be shipped...
...time grew shorter, procurement got harder. Typical was a hurry-up order for 7,000 big truck tractor and semitrailer vehicles. A.S.F. men grabbed 800 from Army units in the U.S., picked up 200 here & there, cut back production of six other kinds of motor vehicles in U.S. plants to give the trucks priority. They got them built and shipped them...
...truck a soldier-hackney handed passengers a five-foot piece of two-by-four. Said he: "Here's the bell-bash on the back of the driver's compartment when you want to get off." They did. On another, the driver yelled an invitation to get aboard: "Come on, come...