Word: humping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the small operators had solid though one-horse experience to back up their claims that they were up to the job. Within Colorado, over the American Hump, four shoestring companies this summer have successfully pioneered in operating feeders. None has had a serious accident...
...assumptions." The assumptions were basic. In their extreme form, they were: an Army assumption that crisis shortages (radar, heavy trucks, bombs) are so great that this is no time to talk about reconversion; an assumption by one wing of WPB that war production is now well over the hump, and it is high time to begin retooling for peace...
...Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim is a three-hump serpent). And then Slim developed his periscope neck by nostalgically trying to peer back over the hills toward the scenes of his childhood...
...bounced the U.S. over the rubber hump is chubby, puckish-looking Bradley Dewey, 67, who announced his resignation last week on the plea that his job was done. (After a short vacation in September, he will resume the presidency of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge, Mass.) When he succeeded able Bill Jeffers as Rubber Boss nearly a year ago, the groundwork had been laid, but synthetic plants were making about a third of what they are now. Dewey, a hardboiled, thorough man, bulled through plant construction and speeded up the synthetic program. To help him, Rubber Boss Dewey...
Like their Chinese comrades, they were almost bare of motorized equipment, pitifully short of supplies, which still had to come by air over the Hump from India. Last week, south of the China theater in Burma, American, British and Chinese troops moved almost imperceptibly closer to regaining the ground over which a supply road could be thrust into China...