Word: humped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most accounts, Robert Patterson's appointment was a good choice. But the new Assistant Secretary will have to hump himself to do credit to Franklin Roosevelt for making a change at such a time. Said Columnist Hugh Johnson: "It [the Assistant-Secretaryship] is no task for an amateur. . . . It would take a new man a year even to get the feel of it. We have no years to spare-not even days...
...only wait to see what war will bring by way of an export market. But always dependable are U. S. motorists; last week their demand for gasoline was up about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either in oil's overproduction is an unlovely derrick forest in Southern Illinois...
...State Department pondered: what of Greenland, with its unexploited riches and its strategic nearness to the U. S., if Hitler wins his war and claims his western spoils? And what of the imperiled Netherlands, whose Dutch West Indies and Dutch Guiana (on the northern hump of South America) lie within 1,500 air miles of the Panama Canal? This week the State Department seriously considered a cooperative, Pan-American protectorate over these Dutch possessions, if Wilhelmina's land should fall to the Nazis...