Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...equipment to be furnished to the company will consist of at least 18 ambulances, two supply trucks, and one repair truck. The men will probably be taken to France within two months and it is expected that they will be transferred to any American troops that may go to the front. The work of the company will be similar to that performed by the American Ambulance Field Service except that the wounded will be taken care of as well as transported from the front...
...States troops go abroad the Corps will be able to take care of the transportation for such an army. As a means of fitting itself to carry on efficiently this work, the Service expects to organize in Paris a school for instruction in the organization and manipulation of motor-truck units...
...come highly into the favor of a large number of sons of the big cities. They have heard, with a voice that may not be denied, the call for going to the land. They have purchased overalls of the latest 1917 model from the clothiers, and now besiege dairy, truck and ranch farmers with requests for any work of an arduous kind which will increase their country's food production, all the way from milking cows to raking the leaves off the front lawn...
Such universal love of the land must call for our commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
...have been with the Corps in one capacity or another, four of whom have been killed. Richard Hall, of Dartmouth, and William Kelley, of Philadelphia, met their death from shell-fire; Henry M. Suckley '10 was killed by an airplane bomb, and H. Sortwell '11 was crushed beneath a truck at Salonika. Over 400,000 wounded men have been carried by the American ambulances during the last three years, and at present the service is costing $80,000 a month...