Word: humped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They span the South Atlantic from the "hump" to Africa's west coast, shuttle across equatorial Africa and follow the Nile from Khartoum to Cairo, thence to Saudi Arabia and Karachi. From Cairo they fan out into Trans-Jordan and on to Teheran. From Karachi they reach across India, climb over the Himalayas and thunder across the roof of the world into China...
These forthright words of General Somervell shocked the gathered businessmen. If General Somervell knew what he was talking about, war production was not even approaching the crest of the hump...
...tons a month. After the fall of France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons in November 1941. Then it, too, was lost. Since then the air supply route "over the hump" from Assam has given China only a fraction of even the Burma Road's trickle...
...Over the Hump. Near Missoula, Mont., southbound Motorist Aubrey Knowles found the highway blocked by a landslide, peeked over, found a thwarted northbound motorist; the two traded cars, went happily...
From California's chaparral-cloaked San Jose Valley last week came good news to the whole U.S.: after many a delay, Henry J. Kaiser's $6,000,000 Permanente Magnesium plant is finally over the hump. It is now producing at the rate of 4,500 tons of magnesium a year, enough to make magnesium parts for 9,000 heavy bombers. Although this is only one-third the production originally scheduled in 1941, the company expects to double output this month to the highest levels...