Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czecho-Russian treaty points the way to a "general security system" (as desired by the U.S.). But the U.S.S.R. will have no truck with "artificial and lifeless unifications, such as federations...
...prayer meeting, and global war gives men little time to sing hymns in front of an altar. But the praying pilot; the nurse who lifted the cup of cold water to my burning lips; the mail truck driver with a chest cough that sounded to me like pneumonia, who nevertheless drove twelve miles out of his way to get a lost kid from Georgia back to his outfit; the girl from Oregon who was hanging curtains at a dust-smothered "basha" to make it look a bit like home to homesick boys; and the wounded from the landing beaches...
...look like a creamery truck when you put on a white suit? If you gain another ten pounds, will you have to wear license plates? Why look like the back of a hack? Try Dr. Quack's Slim Jim Reducing Tablets...
...Highway. Even more illogical to the Committee is the vast horde of trucks held by the War Department, while the 4,500,000 civilian trucks are rapidly falling apart. This year civilian truckers got only 54,000 new trucks, about one-tenth their 1941 truck replacements, and only 31,000 vehicles are left in the reserve pool...
...trucks are only part of the trouble. Tires are a critical shortage. The Committee found that, despite glowing reports on synthetic rubber production, there will be a deficiency of about three million truck tires in 1944, and that heavy-duty tires made 70% of synthetic rubber will not stand up in service. To the tire industry the report said sourly: "The Committee is disappointed that the synthetic rubber tire manufacturing program has proceeded so far without solving the problem of making satisfactory heavy-duty tires for trucks and busses...