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Dakar? The Axis reported angrily that the Allies had blockaded Vichy's port on the hump of West Africa and were about to seize it. If so, the Allies were aiming at a point of constant threat to the mid-atlantic, to Brazil (1,800 miles away) and to vital ports of entry in mid-Africa. But Allied action at Dakar could scarcely relieve Russia or even loosen the German hold on the Mediterranean...
...after an Oregon industrial pioneer), sent it down the ways 87% complete, with steam in its boilers. Three days, 23 hours, 30 minutes later the Joe Teal, fitted out, was delivered. Son Edgar had served notice that anyone who meant to take a record from him would have to hump, meaning hump...
...Down the hump, in Brazilian towns they learned to be careful about approaching Brazilian women, whose men are touchy. They were puzzled by the bidets in hotel bathrooms. Opposite the hump at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, the doughboys impressed the natives with the "magnificence" of their equipment, and immediately set to work building a big camp named for President Roosevelt. Up the air transport route, in Egypt, they learned to watch for bulges in the costumes of native "wog" workers; sometimes found parts of vehicles. But fezzed natives were learning to fry a hamburger, and Yanks were furnishing the instructions...
Along Africa's western hump and inward bend ran a current of news and rumor...
Perhaps the Germans were merely stirring the African pot to confuse the Allies. Perhaps Berlin was justifying, in advance, a thrust into West Africa. Perhaps Berlin had realized that, with Brazil in the war, the Allies now had a hump of their own, only 1,800 miles across the Atlantic from Dakar...