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...much." For hundreds of Houston parents, Reed came to typify their own servicemen sons; they flooded him with pies, cakes, homemade candy, books. When he wrote wistfully that he wished he had "a teaspoonful of Texas soil to put under my pillow at night," he got nearly a truckload, packed in small envelopes. But when Reed was home on a furlough, City Editor Johnston diplomatically asked him when he thought he might be going overseas...
...Russia's annexation of Karelia and Petsamo province, have worked in shipyards, lumber camps, factories and foundries to meet the harsh Russian levy. They have delivered, among other things, 300 paper mills, 7,000 locomotives and freight cars, countless miles of cable, electric motors by the truckload, scores of thousands of prefabricated wooden houses, huge river barges for the Volga, and a 573-ship merchant marine...
...Mixer. In Chicago, after a ten-day hunt for Truck Driver Dumonte Ashley Parker and a missing truckload of 750 cases of gin, police finally found the truck, short 250 cases, and Parker tipsy in a nearby tavern, where he indignantly told them: "I drink whisky myself...
Controlling the hoopla, like organists on the keyboard, throwing in an extra furioso here and an obbligato there, were the boys at headquarters. On the Hilton's eleventh floor, the Eisenhower GHQ was somewhat disorganized but fervent."Demonstration materials" went out by the truckload. As one load of 600 Eisenhower hats was sent to the front, Volunteer Worker George McMullen said: "Don't worry, we'll have the bodies to go under those hats. Bodies are our job. We know just where to call when we need, let's say 150 bodies for a demonstration...
Coup. Near Matamoros, Mexico, customs inspectors found contraband needles in a truckload...