Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil Aeronautics Administration), CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) manage air transport; ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) and WSA (War Shipping Administration) work out war transport by rail, truck, bus and ship...
...many a trucker, rooted out of bed at night, is called upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven-truck caravan rumbled out of Massachusetts with freight for a Pacific convoy, despite a Midwest blizzard made the transcontinental run in eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine and cab units...
...truck carrying 20,756 lb. of fresh meat from Baltimore to North Carolina's Fort Bragg was fined $82.25 for overweight at Woodbridge, Virginia. Overweight or not, trucks must wait two to six hours in line to be weighed...
...Delaware a truck was held 24 hours, the driver jailed because a load of Army supplies en route from New England to a Southern camp exceeded the State's weight limit...
Habit. In San Francisco, a streetcar collided with a delivery truck; out of the truck bounced four trained seals, who performed in the street for half an hour...