Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell how many we are, but we're a company of farmers, clerks, salesmen, miners (coal and copper), truck drivers, laborers and mechanics. . . . We're volunteers, draftees, and old army men from...
...reinforce success." He pulled out much of his armor and more infantry and poured them south on a series of forced and camouflaged marches by night. The force made an extraordinary 200-mile dash across desert as trackless as the sky, building its own dust storms. Armor and the truck convoys made the whole desert stink like a garage, according to one of the men who went along...
Movement for Perfection. At some of them, gunners swing fixed shotguns in turrets just like the ones they will use in bombers. At others they fire from a truck going 30 miles an hour around an elliptical track while birds sail past at every angle. In the fourth week, having learned to service machine guns and repair stoppages, they go on to ground machine-gun practice, firing .30s and .50s at targets carried over an irregular, baffling course by mechanically controlled jeeps...
Sent to Camp Livingston, La., to nurse a fleet of trucks, he continued to draw at nights, squatting in a truck with netting over his head to keep bugs...
...University Observatory stepped, into the breach by constructing the mounting and tubing at cost in its shops while a Connecticut optical firm made the lenses in spare time, benveen work on war contracts. A truck carrying the telescope and all its fixings left Cambridge in January, 1942, on a 3300 mile journey to Tononzintla and arrived a week before the scheduled official dedication. George Z. Dimilreff research associate in Astronomy and associate set up the telescope in record time...