Word: lashio
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...