Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young by letting him ride in a Pullman." A Summer's Tail. In Atlanta, a police man held up traffic for what he thought was a funeral procession, let 18 cars pass, all driven by women, then found they were all tailing a heavily loaded meat truck...
Back down the other side of the highway came one of the early casualties- a dusty small truck, bent squarely in the middle and looking quite bewildered, towed by a wrecker. When the opposing forces clashed, they clashed with the greatest violence. I remembered what Corporal Melvin Stottlemyer of Muncie, Ind. had told me: "I wouldn't miss this show for anything...
During the war the Nazis transferred coffin and contents to Siegen, in Westphalia. Last week a U.S. Army truck brought them back. Said the soldier driver reporting to the Allied officer in charge: "I've got the bones with me. Where...
...promoted many a warehouse improvement: 1) leather-lined rooms for expensive furniture; 2) special mothproof rooms; 3) refrigerated vaults for furs. And last week he was working on a new idea he hoped would revolutionize the moving industry-an "airvan" which can be hauled to an airport as a truck trailer, and connected to a wing assembly for immediate takeoff...
...most important thing about an amphibious jeep or truck is that it should keep afloat; the next most important, that its ignition system should keep dry. Fortnight ago U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. was permitted to tell how the second requirement has been met in World War II. The electrical parts are painted with a compound known as PiB (protects, insulates batteries), which is brushed or sprayed over the spark plugs, battery terminals and exposed electrical parts. There it dries slowly to produce a highly insulating but flexible film, making the circuits impermeable by water...