Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katie Ward Lane...
Trucks were already moving supplies from the Ledo railhead over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...
Laffing Room Only (book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...
...movement was born on Dec. 21, 1844, when 28 shabbily dressed flannel weavers met in a warehouse on Toad Lane, Rochdale, Lancashire. They put in about $5 each so that they could buy candles, sugar, etc., in larger quantities, thus get them cheaper. Now there arc 143,000,000 members of 810,000 cooperative societies throughout the world...
...their biggest tasks was surfacing the fields. To get material, they hacked out two coral quarries. To move the coral, they built a smooth three-lane highway that cut a five-hour haul to 15 minutes. Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...