Word: lashio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese bombed Rangoon, devastated the neighborhood of his hotel. He moved to another. On Christmas the Japanese razed that hotel with incendiaries. Finally cadging a ride by plane to Lashio and another to Kunming, much-traveled Correspondent MacDonald arrived in China, wrote his dispatch, then proceeded to Chungking to wind up his 4,700-mile trip in his usual unruffled state...
Having negotiated - from Lashio, Burma, to Kunming, China - 726 agonized miles of the world's most deadly, contorted, breath-taking and important highway, Arnstein told newshawks at Chungking: "It's a good road, and its capacity, with efficient operation, is practically unlimited. It is possible that in the future Burma Road traffic will be limited only by the capacity of the port of Rangoon." To Generalissimo Chiang these were heartening words. Cut off by the Japanese from her seacoast and from rail communications in Indo-China, Free China today finds herself as wholly dependent for materiel upon...
...every Chinese, this was vital news. For the Burma Road, scratched almost literally by coolies' hands out of 715 miles of mountain and ravine from Lashio in Burma to Kunming in China, was no great shakes as a road but was everything to China as an idea. It meant as much to modern China as the Great Wall to ancient China. It represented a link with the world, foreign help, high morale, defiance. It represented the future...
...Lashio that clear night there were 2,000 U. S.-built trucks, into which 5,000 coolies of many tribes lifted cargoes of many sorts-wings of airplanes, lock nuts for lathes, rolls of adhesive plaster, flashlights, tins of high-octane gasoline, rifle barrels, barrels of kerosene, raw cotton: materials of war and of war economy. The loading dumps covered acres. Some $20,000,000 worth of China's future lay there...