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...Prophet Co., which grosses $50,000 per day, services 61 companies and some 250,000 workers in the U.S. Probably No. 1 local caterer is Trainor Bros. Inc., which serves 150,000 workers a day at 13 Detroit factories (including Briggs Mfg., Continental Motors, Fruehauf Trailer) via 20 trucks and trailers and 120 rolling canteens. Average price for a full meal: 35?. Though it takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge, a good part of Henry Ford's giant plant is served by the Springwells Box Lunch Co., which serves 20,000 men a day with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Restaurants | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...whistles, wolf calls, boos, belly laughter. This was not only true of San Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion-from the Desperate Journey trailer-of one line about Flynn and his RAFish companions: "They know but one command: Attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popularity | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

MOTHER FINDS A BODY-Gypsy Rose Lee-Simon & Schuster ($2). The ribald and revealing antics of a bunch of traveling burleycuers on the Texas border, and what they did about a couple of unwanted corpses that turned up in their trailer. Has its points as a detective story and its moments of truth as a chronicle of life among strippers, tassel-tossers and the like; also a few amusingly snide remarks. But the show-stuff pretty much follows the party line laid down in The G-String Murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...largest single truck & trailer order in automotive history was announced last week by the Army. Dimensions: 880,000 vehicles; 41 manufacturers; over $1,500,000,000 total cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Horse-Sense Order | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Rommel Africanus | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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