Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooden shed alongside, crewmen helped stevedores heave cargo aboard the Hamonic. A few of the passengers gawked at them from the top deck. Others were at breakfast in the long salon, and many were still in their staterooms. Suddenly a truck on the pier backfired and burst into flame. When the fire reached the gasoline tank, a rolling blaze swept up the ship's side, billowed over the deck...
Louis P. Lochner, 58-year-old dean of A.P. newsmen in Germany, got a major bumping and minor injuries when a jeep he was riding in Berlin hit a Russian truck...
...leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never stopped Austin production: the Austin-made British jeep, a utility truck, was built on the same chassis as the civilian models. Austin expects to turn out 8,000 cars by year's end, expects to send the U.S. market about 30% of its output. To do this as well as export to other countries, Britons will be pinched. They will...
Along Long Island's Jones Beach rolled a truck, laying a curtain of thick white fog like a smoke screen. Within a few minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...
Artie and his glib earthiness are frequently amusing. (He rebels at standing "the thoid inspection in three days . . . I got enough to do to keep me truck clean without bothering too much about me person.") His weekly appearance in Yank was a popular one. But untraveled civilians who try to read 51 of his adventures at a sitting will find the laughs wearing thin. Author Brown himself puts a finger on the weakness of his book as civilian entertainment when he notes that Artie's "character was appreciated by those who were living with someone like him and listening...