Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite continual bombing by British and U.S. planes, Tobruk and Bengasi were still open ports, through which a stream of men and supplies flowed from Greece and Crete. Motor-driven lighters, laden with supplies, hugged the coast in Rommel's immediate rear, supplementing the truck convoys on land. Bombings had impeded, but by no means broken up, this front-line supply system. Nor had Allied air attack smashed the Luftwaffe's airtransport line from Crete to the African battlefront...
...More women replaced men at heavy tasks: truck driving, street car operation, trench digging, munitions manufacturing. It was hard labor-but it was better than slavery in the conquered Ukraine (see cut). Nearly all women not in essential services were in uniforms...
...Reporter Fox's probe led him to the Virginia farm of one C. Russell Bull, whose wife readily explained one of the markers: a figure 9, formed by gunny sacks in a field, which pointed at a factory. Mrs. Bull said they were fertilizer sacks dropped from a truck to dry; when Army men visited the farm last March the sacks were rearranged...
...largest single truck & trailer order in automotive history was announced last week by the Army. Dimensions: 880,000 vehicles; 41 manufacturers; over $1,500,000,000 total cost...
Life. In Milford Center, Ohio, Carl Kaufman was treated for chills after being trapped four hours in a packinghouse refrigerator. A few hours later he was treated for burns after his truck caught fire...