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...Sunday shifts in all U.S. shipyards will stop Jan. 1, because merchant-ship production (20 million tons a year) is already "over the hump," the Maritime Commission ruled...
Uneasiness grew in Chungking with each new shipment of fresh Chinese bank notes from the U.S. As the big transports from over the Hump brought ton after ton of baled currency, the people who understood took quiet steps and the ones who only sensed something strange became cautious...
...railways, airdromes and aircraft maintenance centers in France and the Lowlands harder and more often than ever before. Then, on the climactic night, the R.A.F. Bomber Command suddenly diverted fleets of its far-ranging heavy bombers from Germany to the Channel coast. They hit Boulogne, a port on the hump of northern France nearest to Britain, one of the logical invasion routes...
There were problems of routes and communications through Italy's foot. The middle of the Calabrian peninsula was a high and rugged hump, with narrow plains running around its coasts. The hump, the end of the Apennines, continued straight up Italy like a backbone. Main trunk lines, perforce, trailed along the two coasts of the Italian boot and were vulnerable to air attack. For days Allied bombers had pounded Italian railways south of Naples, had blasted freightcars in clogged yards as far north as Pisa. This was strategic bombing designed to hamstring Axis troops in the south...
Possibly this month will see a decrease. If it does the R.A.F. and the Eighth will be over the hump...