Word: humped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Service of Supply was set up. Americans and Chinese determined what could be brought in by air over the Hump,* what by trucks over the Stilwell Road, what could be expected from Chinese war production, now rising smartly under U.S. guidance and the able direction of China's scholarly WPBoss Dr. Wong Wen-hao. Proper supplies were then carefully pumped out to field units. For the first time, China's armies were adequately fed, paid in hard cash, given ammunition and guns in a steady flow...
...Over the Hump. Ike Tigrett kept on buying up tottering railroads whenever he could get them at bottom prices, and used them to tap new sources of traffic for the G.M. & N. In 1933 he leased the New Orleans Great Northern Railway Co., which soon gave him a line into New Orleans and a chance to bid for export-Si -import freight traffic. In 1940 Tigrett bought the Mobile & Ohio Railroad...
There would be logic aplenty for such dealings. Eastern expects to operate a postwar route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone, northern terminus of Panagra, which operates down the Andean-wrinkled west coast of South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...
...night had been seven years long, but now China could see the first glow of dawn. Brigadier General William H. Tunner's transport planes were flashing over the Hump, one every two and a half minutes. Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick's trucks were thundering up the newly opened Ledo-Burma Road, past banners reading "Welcome Honorable Truck Convoy," "Welcome Material Help...
...tough enough to be flying a cargo of explosives over the Hump from India; it was worse than that when one of the depth charges in the cargo started to buzz. Pilot J. E. Zerbe radioed his home base for instructions. Base replied soothingly: ''Nothing to worry about-depth charge...