Word: overland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Willys-Overland was handed a $22 million order for 8,350 jeeps, its biggest in five years. To Reo Motors went a contract to make 3,900 "Eager-Beaver" heavy-duty trucks for the Army at a cost of $24 million. But since both orders had been on the books before war's outbreak, and no new ones had been placed, automakers thought there was not yet any prospect of a cutback in civilian auto production; cars rolled off assembly lines last week at a record clip of 70 a minute...
Next Question? In Washington, the Fish & Wildlife Service pondered a query that turned up in the mail: "How can I get help to open the overland cycle trade from the inland tide water of the Atlantic to the growth crest creedet of the Pacific? I discovered the oval location of growth...
...minute, leaving the evacuees and their baggage waiting at the Shanghai docks. Last week in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson decided to call it quits: all plans for a sea rescue from Shanghai were off. He would, he said, ask the Communists to let the Americans travel overland to Tientsin or Hong Kong and try to get private shipping facilities from there...
...continental interior. The majority of the British, intensely preoccupied with the continued development of their maritime commercial empire, opposed westward expansion. Yet a small group led by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote prophetically of the extraordinary agrarian possibilities of the interior as well as its importance as an overland route to the Pacific...
Also slated to appear are Brooks Stevens, consultant for Willys-Overland, and Gorden Florian; designer for General Electric Company...