Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigands & Beauties. The old Ethiopia goes its way. Along the new mountain highways, old-fashioned Ethiopian brigands lie in wait for British truck convoys instead of camel caravans, use hand grenades and rifles instead of spears and poisoned arrows. Ethiopians still farm with wooden, wife-drawn plows, still live in filth and squalor...
Roundup, U.S. soldiers' newspaper in Delhi, India, spoke earthy words against homesickness: "All you jerks want to return to the States because of some woman. This type of thinking, gents, is a snare and a delusion. . . . Now she's probably driving a six-by-six truck. When you get back...
...cars for shipment west one month, lost $8,000. Another month he made up his loss, and made money. Visions of quick turnover profits brought in many fly-by-night dealers who can go in & out of business in 15 minutes. Instead of shipping west by train or by truck, as do legitimate dealers, they reportedly hire civilians to drive cars west on black-market gas coupons. Unofficial estimates are that 20% of the cars registered in the New York area have been shunted out by such methods...
...played Honolulu and traveled by "banana truck" to the remotest outposts on the island of Oahu. It will soon tour the outlying islands. Meanwhile Evans (who has done no acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
...command of Sergeant Bruce, seven enlisted men and ten students rode the remaining 18 ROTC horses to an M.P. detachment in Maynard, Mass. The ride, 24 miles long, started at 700 and ended at 1300. Riders had lunch at the mess hall there and returned in the afternoon by truck...