Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primary Turin targets were the Royal Arsenal, the Fiat truck and plane plants, the Caproni bomber factory, the Montecatini chemical works. Observers reported that a great pall of smoke lay over the city. At one point flames from a factory shot up 8,000 feet in the air like the plume of a live volcano...
James Watson Gerard, 75, U.S. Ambassador to Germany in World War I, was knocked down in Manhattan by a bakery truck, sent to bed with a scalp wound and shock...
...Wayne Clark, 46. A graduate of West Point, tall, poker-stiff Mark Clark fought in France in World War I, is known as a strict disciplinarian and a thoroughgoing soldier. His creed: every U.S. fighting man should be taught to fight with any weapon, and from a tank, a truck, a boat or on foot-especially on foot. Clark's grouse is that the army is becoming road-bound. Offensive-minded, he has talked often and pointedly about a second front. "The sooner the better," he summed it up. "We are not here to sit on our back ends...
From Oakland, Calif. came a pertinent note on women in industry. To avoid a truck, a bus full of shipyard workers ground to a sudden teeth-jolting stop. Instead of yelling at their driver, in line with the time-honored practice of bus riders, the passengers jumped out, bawled the devil out of the truck driver for getting in the way of their girl chauffeur...
Katharsis with Music. In Leesville, La., democratic-minded Marine Sergeant Arthur Rosett encountered a sign outside a nightclub reading, "For officers and civilians only," went away mad, came back with a sound truck, parked it near the door, played the Marine Corps hymn full-blast 55 times, made a recruiting speech, played the hymn 55 more times, read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, found the nightclub empty, went away happy...