Word: flatboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only call it "the incomprehensible machinery of Chinese aid." But it was not machinery. A chain of human beings, protective, silent, efficient, carried them from one hiding place to an other. For almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American flyers...
...over the land ferries had stopped or were slowing to a stop. In the old days, in big river towns, the ferryboat captain was a man of dignity and wealth. Along narrow streams deep in the country there were leisurely men in overalls who pulled a flatboat across by wires for an occasional farmer's wagon or a model-T Ford...