Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Bradley's front, supply lines were strained to the snapping point. Endless truck columns labored to keep the infantry going, and the forward armor was supplied largely by air. One day C-47 transports hauled up 3,000 tons of supplies, taking wounded and liberated prisoners back on the return trip...
...elected June 11, the Government would have no truck with radicalism. Said cheery, aggressive Minister Howe: the emphasis of its plans would be on the unfettered operation of free enterprise. War time taxes would be eliminated or at least reduced as soon as possible, to provide plenty of opportunity for private profit. There would be no splurge on public works. Private investment would be encouraged by low interest rates, and by loans from Government lending agencies. Wartime anti-inflation controls would be kept only for "a smoother, more rapid transition to a prosperous peacetime economy." Minister Howe named specific aims...
Reverse Rationing. In Lind, Wash., Mayor Joe Roller left his automobile at home to save gas, walked to work, was notified that during his stroll a gas truck had crashed into his garage, spilled 6,800 gallons of gas, caught fire, burned up his car and garage...
...roads to Mandalay had never seen such strange companies of men: long-bearded Sikhs, tall, blond Britons, swart Gurkhas. Their companions were as strange. On almost every truck and tank perched a sad-faced monkey. A sheep marched beside an Indian Army officer, took cover with him in battle, lay down beside him at night. Fierce Gurkha warriors walked beside their mules, talked affectionately to them, brushed them devotedly (a Gurkha looks upon a mule as infallible, and weeps like a child when one is killed...
...when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...