Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the roads it was hard to tell that there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just...
...unkind to the gold towns of Minas Geraes. Their old wealth is long since gone; the red dust of Minas cakes their half-deserted streets. But Aleijadinho's heroic monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho's Church...
...Notre Dame players had returned to South Bend from their summer vacations looking bronzed and rugged. They had kept in shape as farmhands, icemen, truck drivers and lifeguards. Now they were back on a Leahy diet of football, sleep and twice-a-week steaks. Coming out of each scrimmage huddle the players yelled: "Beat the Boilermakers...
...Army is planning to equip virtually all front-line vehicles, from tanks and prime movers to trucks and weapons carriers, with the new engine, and two truck companies are ready to order it as soon as it is in production. So Reese thinks it will be at least two years before the new Continental brings about any changes in passenger cars. In any case, Reese expects that it will be hot competition for General Motors' new high-compression motor shown this week, and that it will return Continental to the place in the auto engine industry that it once...
...business. In three months he lined up $5,000,000 worth of engine business from J. I. Case, Checker Cab, Sears, Roebuck and others. By the time war orders came in, he had Continental in such tiptop shape that it turned out $796 million worth of aircraft and truck engines...