Word: humping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born Mr. Johnson, a West Point graduate, left Marathon to rejoin the U.S. Army, participated in Allied strategic planning at Cairo, Yalta and Quebec, got the Legion of Merit for helping get supplies across the Hump to China. Last fall Colonel Johnson asked Marathon to give him back...
While the crisis for the College has apparently passed, the Provost pointed out that the graduate schools have yet to feel the post-war "hump." Symptomatic is the grand total of 1800 for February looked for in the School of Arts and Sciences
...skins and downriver at Belém (pronounced Beleng) a two weeks' festival in honor of Our Lady of Nazareth, observed by the eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...
...strike deadline neared, Ottawa nervously upped its ante to 12^, and removed the wage differential in Nova Scotia (5?an hour less). Labor came down to the equivalent of 15½. Under extended wartime powers, Hump Mitchell could fine anyone $20 a day who defied the seizure and refused to work, and jail and fine those interfering with the seizure order. But he also knew that arrests would not make steel...
...Hump Mitchell hesitated, the men came out. From now on it was up to the operator-the Government of Canada...