Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not deny many of Stowe's minor points: bootlegging of gasoline by penny-hungry truck drivers is an open scandal, as it is on many an American trucking run. Petty thievery is rampant: efficient policing is long overdue. The Chinese say they are combating these abuses, and they back up the statement with figures showing increasing efficiency. In July 1941 the road carried 3,864 tons of military supplies. In November it carried 17,500 tons. No comparable improvement in war effort has been demonstrated...
...opposite number, Navy Intelligence, had its own crews and also worked through civilian fishermen, hotel proprietors, seamen, produce dealers. Japanese produce truck drivers delivered fresh vegetables and other foods directly to Navy ships in the yards, well knew where each was docked. Probably they furnished the locations marked out on the Pearl Harbor charts carried by the raiders...
...produce men-there was a virtual Japanese monopoly of truck gardening on Oahu-had other handy information. From the size of orders they could make a close guess at the duration of the fleet's cruises, could also figure out accurately when the fleet would be back in port again. Supervised by naval officers, this group was paid off by N.Y.K. Co. (steamship lines) and by the famed Japanese industrial trusts, Mitsui and Mitsubishi...
...each State FCC has at least one monitoring station. Each FCC station has at least one mobile unit (e.g., a truck) in which suspicious transmission can be reconnoitered. Several hundred illegal sending sets were extinguished by this system in 1941. Some were not merely illegal but dangerous...
Fast-moving, hard-driving A. W. S. Herrington bought the truck division of near-bankrupt Marmon Motor Car in 1931, settled down in Indianapolis. A Motor Transport Corps captain in World War I, Herrington knows trucks and tanks inside & out. He once worked for Motorcycle Makers Harley-Davidson, spent seven years as transportation engineer with the Army and Marine Corps...