Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown: "So what?" and "You said it" had been added to "The toilet is over there!" and "What the hell goes on here?" Now one of his problems is the ingrained aloofness of Politburo men and others in the Soviet hierarchy who feel that Russia is having too much truck with foreigners...
...night had been seven years long, but now China could see the first glow of dawn. Brigadier General William H. Tunner's transport planes were flashing over the Hump, one every two and a half minutes. Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick's trucks were thundering up the newly opened Ledo-Burma Road, past banners reading "Welcome Honorable Truck Convoy," "Welcome Material Help...
...cops winced. The record showed that Lodzinski and Davidowicz had grown up in Detroit as healthy, law-abiding kids. They were friends in high school, left town together in 1941 to join the Marines. They were months on Guadalcanal, Lodzinski as truck driver, Davidowicz as machine gunner...
...week by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. He listed 17 critical items whose production must be stepped up 19% (tanks) to 300% (60mm. and 81-mm. mortars). Some others: heavy artillery ammunition (89%), airborne radar (32%), field and assault wire (50% plus), dry-cell batteries (27%), heavy-duty truck and bus tires...
...front door one day last week. A curious woman asked, "Who are you expecting?" A bellhop grinned, said, "A $50,000 bull." Snapped the woman: "You don't have to be nasty." A few minutes later a $50,000 bull named T. T. Regent lumbered out of a truck, waddled up the red rug, was triumphantly installed in a pen in the lobby...