Word: hummocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...
Question was how long they could keep up this star performance. Normally the roads expect a breathing spell in November and December (see chart) to prepare for the next peak in January. But defense production knows no seasonal let downs. If the 1941 October peak proved a hummock, the December valley may prove a ditch. Last fortnight actual carloadings were higher than A.A.R.'s estimate for the first time in six weeks. Thus there may be no time for normal repairs...