Word: humping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander admitted that a southern China port must be opened before the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek can be rearmed. But "Vinegar Joe," who probably knows China better than any brasshat in New Delhi, stoutly held that the "Hump" air route and the Ledo Road can fill the immediate gap in China's desperate needs, thus fit into the general Asia strategy...
...horse or man. (Object: to tire the bull's neck muscles so that he lowers his head in charging, exposing the spot which the matador must hit to kill him.) Next, the peones (or sometimes the matador) place three pairs of beribboned darts in the bull's hump (object: to excite the bull and keep him lively...
...business, perhaps better than 1942. And even on longer second glance, much of the rosy tint held up under a grey-colored fact. The fact: many a corporation, slashed by renegotiation, squeezed by taxes, soaring costs and OPA ceilings, has reached its profit peak or is already over the hump and on the way down. But the rosy color held up generally because, in spite of everything, most companies were still making big money even with the hump behind them...
Laboring over the cruel mountain "Hump Route" from India, a U.S. transport plane drew near its China base with 5,000 precious pounds of mail from home. The pilot, Lieut. Roy Thomas, noticed a scudding cloud ahead. Then...
With the cash, Aluminum of Canada expanded its facilities on Quebec's Saguenay River, helped the U.S. over the aluminum hump with quick shipments from its reserve. But Aluminum of Canada still has some half-billion pounds to ship, and has a hard & fast contract requiring the RFC to pay a 5?-a-lb. penalty if the contract is canceled...