Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General George S. Patton Jr., riding in an Army Cadillac to a pheasant-shoot near Mannheim, Germany, was crashed into by an Army truck, wound up in a Heidelberg hospital, his spine fractured, his body partly paralyzed. Wife Beatrice flew from Washington to the bedside of the 60-year-old veteran of World War I and II and many a personality battle...
Stripped for Action. In Nora Springs, Iowa, town officials forked over $25 for running a truck with no headlights, no tail lights, no sidelights, no stoplights, no clearance lights, no identification lights, no flares, no red flags, no windshield wiper, no rear-view mirror, no license plates...
Some were so young when they went to war that they are still of high school and college age. Others were just getting started as butchers, bookkeepers, truck drivers, gasoline station attendants...
Some of these veterans have a hard time putting what they mean into words. The best that a onetime truck driver, a prisoner of the Germans for two years, could do was to write: "I don't know what I could do for you people, but there must be some place for a man who is willing to work and who wants to become a part of your organization." A seaman second class was even more determined: "For my own part, I have resolved that my happiness in future work will depend to a large extent on whether...
...Detroit, red-haired Walter Reuther, scorning a hat but bundled up in overcoat and muffler, mounted a sound truck and went out to hearten the strikers. He did not try to paint a rosy picture. He reminded them that no strike benefits would be paid by the union, but in time there would be soup kitchens and the union would send a doctor to any member who needed...